@Beemann It's far more insidious. What kind of control do you think the Google App Store is capable of? We've already seen what they did to Gab.

And Infowars.

190 death threats at Trump on twitter right now, not being taken down, no one banned

I dont use the app store

@Timcast we dont need more regulation for free speech. Companies allready cant curate and publish illegal stuff without being accountable allready - its just not enforced. As soon as you curate, you are responsible for everything the moment it happens, deleting it 30 seconds later doesnt save you

I've stopped using the app store

I don't even have it installed

@Redneo My thinking exactly. The regulation is coming whether we want it or not. At least we should get something good out of it.

As it is, Europe is dictating the policies with *their* regulations.

Good luck

Politics never changes

the net is way to centralised, maybe blockchain/dapps can help, but barrier to adoption will be high

@pratel no we dont need new regulation. That regulation allready exists in the US. Thats the rules

No, it doesn't not yet anyway.

That's why they do what they do.

Blockchain is the one cool thing to come out of cryptoshit

Torrent may be the future.

Yeah it does. Okay, imagine you spread childporn on your website. You are responsible. Similar stuff is posted on twitter im sure.

Why dont we just move to local broadband instead?

But I worry that there is always a maintenance element that people forget.

they are not responsible as long as they are a platform rather than a publisher

if they curate, they are a publisher

thats the rules as they stand now

No it doesn't, that's why people are up in arms about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

i run a decent size platform, if they make me responsible for what others post, I'm dead.

^ This too.

well you are responsible IF you curate

You really need to make Reddit and Facebook like a telephone company.

But @Redneo how do you determine if it's being curated or deleted for breaking the terms of service

if you delete stuff thats not against the law or enforce your guidlines in any other way than with an iron fist to every post equaly, you are responsible

if you tolerate something that violates the letter of your guidlines just as much from an egg account and delete something similar from a big account, you are not equaly enforcing your rules

that's all subjective

But just becuase a company misses a post here or there on one side does not prove that its been curated

Correlation does not equal causation

The only way you can proof that you dont curate is by only removing stuff after receiving a takedown notice from a court

Dont get me wrong I agree

But the company's still deserve legal protection if it's not curating. Just becuase it seems to some that it is, does not make it true

@Redneo as it stands now.. 100's of millions of sites are in violation of what you describe.

Many examples of this

@beaker yes they are

Its still US law