No wanting to defend the orange loon too much.....
......but I do continue to find the activities of the big social media giants a little troubling.
Way I see it, you have two choices. Either you're a platform - in which case you leave people free to say whatever they want on any subject, you only take down any content that is actually illegal, and any individual is responsible for what they say and post.
Or you decide to editorialize. Control, tag or augment content on the basis of the company's political leanings. And that's absolutely fine - but then you're becoming a publisher, like a newspaper, and as a publisher, you are now liable if anything on your site is libelous.
The tech giants are chillingly powerful nowadays, so if Trump does want to try and legislate to force them to choose what they are, platform or publisher, and be legally treated accordingly - I think I might be with him on that one.
If, as an added bonus, we get fewer bile-filled childish Presidential Twitter rants, then so much the better.......
......but I do continue to find the activities of the big social media giants a little troubling.
Way I see it, you have two choices. Either you're a platform - in which case you leave people free to say whatever they want on any subject, you only take down any content that is actually illegal, and any individual is responsible for what they say and post.
Or you decide to editorialize. Control, tag or augment content on the basis of the company's political leanings. And that's absolutely fine - but then you're becoming a publisher, like a newspaper, and as a publisher, you are now liable if anything on your site is libelous.
The tech giants are chillingly powerful nowadays, so if Trump does want to try and legislate to force them to choose what they are, platform or publisher, and be legally treated accordingly - I think I might be with him on that one.
If, as an added bonus, we get fewer bile-filled childish Presidential Twitter rants, then so much the better.......