Reminder ...

- Digital Content Platform - Place where individuals can post their own content. The site owners cannot modify this uploaded content beyond basic law requirements (i.e. take down wholly pirated movies). The trade off is that the site owners are PROTECTED from lawsuits regarding content on their site.

- Digital Content PUBLISHER - Place where a company posts content. The company can modify, remove, and curate-with-bias any media that's uploaded by other individuals. The trade off is that the site owners are NOT PROTECTED from lawsuits regarding what's on their site, even if it was generated by a user on their site.

So again, once a website starts crossing that gray area into becoming a content publisher by actively affecting what's on their site = they lose lawsuit protection. Or ... at least they SHOULD ... because they haven't been for the past four years.

FACT CHECKING features on social media services violate the differentiation between platforms and publishers. It doesn't matter if you think it's for the greater good (like the cultists in Hot Fuzz), a platform that actively utilizes "fact checkers" on their page typically do so to hide/obscure, edit, or remove content that qualifies as DANGEROUS MISLEADING INFORMATION in their eyes ... these platforms are performing the same actions that a PUBLISHER performs. And it's not like there's COPPA (copaa?) or the Anti-Piracy acts that the platform is abiding by ... it's just editing it because THEY FEEL IT'S RESPONSIBLE (which, surprise, is not lawsuit defensible).

Again, reality check, just because you're offended doesn't make you right.

And then to address the sycophantic crowd "OH, THIS COULD NEEEEEEEEEEEVER HAPPEN WITH THE LEFT. THIS IS PURELY AN ACTION OF CONSERVATIVE FACISTS"

- YouTube openly admitted that they were automatically deleting comments critical of the Chinese Communist Party. OPENLY ADMITTED, as in they said it was happening, not a conspiracy theory. It's way easy to find this out on your own with a quick websearch. YouTube said it was an honest mistake ... and if you believe that it was an honest mistake I have the cure for idiocy, and it only costs $1,500 payable via paypal - please contact me and give me all your money!!!

- so yeah, censorship DOES happen. (waiting to see how mentally deficient the comments are that try to defend YouTube here)

So, why do I have an optimistic journal title?

Well ... President Trump posted a tweet saying that mail-in voting was a huge liability and could easily result in voter fraud. Twitter flagged this with a FACT CHECK and linked to a leftist opinion column as the TRUTH. Guess what - that's PUBLISHER behavior. Social media platforms can't do that.

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So ... President Trump signed a executive order instructing the appropriate agencies to crack down on this difference between publisher and platform. Which will hopefully result in all of these sites losing their protection and getting the shit sued out of them.

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and legitimately that's a good thing.

If these big websites get the shit sued out of them, they'll either change or go under. And if they go under ... WE LIVE IN A FREE MARKET. With a stroke of luck we'll return back to the golden age of internet (before the greed).