[FlipWilson]

Hmmm, telephone and long distance services, electric lines/power generation and distribution were all once private property. Yet, they became regulated as utilities. They’ve were also said to be exempt from anti-trust, that is until they weren’t.

Just saying, I wonder given YouTube’s market power if it isn’t time to start treating it differently.

I know, I know it’s not a free market solution but it is obvious to me that all this is going down now to silence any opposition for the 2020 election. We may have to use the left’s regulatory tools against it to persuade YouTube and the rest that censorship might not be the way to go.

[NobleFree]

Hmmm, telephone and long distance services, electric lines/power generation and distribution were all once private property. Yet, they became regulated as utilities.

In those cases, the physical disruption of laying multiple phone/power line grids was something we decided we wanted to avoid. No such physical disruption is required for new social media platforms.

[Retrofitted]

Since they took it upon themselves to curate the content on their servers, and in the EULA claim they can use that content as they like, it is THEIR content: they own it, they publish it to the public. Sue them for the death threats, libel, slander, and whatever else. It happens to other information outlets, why not them?

Not a free-market solution at all, I admit, but there is NO way they can curate content and then say it’s not theirs. The time for them to have it both ways needs to go.

[Jim Noble]

We may have to use the left’s regulatory tools against it to persuade YouTube and the rest that censorship might not be the way to go

We are way past that point.