If these platforms lose their 203 protection who do you think will carry Bill Whittle’s videos?
What do you think it will do to his revenue model?
I'm not trying to be insulting but I see now that you lack key information. Whittle has paying subscribers. That's not the question to be asked.
The question is what will happen to YouTube if they lose their 230 protection. The answer is they'd be sued out of existence in a month. I'd say that's incentive enough to stop censoring Conservatives and actually become what they claim to be, a platform.
He has 130k YouTube subscribers and who knows how many views.
He's monetized his content there and I suspect it's a big chunk of the revenue he earns.
If you take away 230 and can now sue YouTube for anything Whittle says he'll be dropped.
The fact that he has billwhittle.com also totally obviates the arguments about Google/YouTube's monopoly as well as censorship complaints.
No one is threatening his ability to speak via his own infrastructure.
The question is what will happen to YouTube if they lose their 230 protection. The answer is they'd be sued out of existence in a month.
And this benefits anyone how, exactly?
I'd say that's incentive enough to stop censoring Conservatives and actually become what they claim to be, a platform.
Wouldn't that be great? But it's much more likely that they would begin to tightly curate their content and only broadcast stuff that they can control and deem safe.
People have this naive notion that we can take away Google's private property but they'll still maintain and operate it so we can harvest ad dollars from our content.
What about the fact that they've invested billions of dollars of private investor's money in a platform based on terms of service that all the users have agreed to?
You want to nationalize the company because you don't like their politics?
What's the principle that says YouTube has to carry everything but Jim can still zot people?
Don't tell me YouTube is a monopoly - it's not even close (see billwhittle.com).
The question is what will happen to YouTube if they lose their 230 protection. The answer is they’d be sued out of existence in a month
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I don’t see a problem with that... Goog/Alphabet/YT dies , are replaced by others... in the meantime they lose 203 protection and the gov’t appoints administrators that have full access to all controls so that only truly unprotected speech is kept off (porn) and all ad revenue except that paid to the creators is confiscated and put in a trust for future lawsuit payouts.