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This would literally make it illegal for Sherdog to dump White Supremacist threads.
This would literally make it illegal for Sherdog to dump White Supremacist threads.
I think you're on to something with the market comparison moreso than with the amendment. I just don't think that you could make a format as large as youtube have the first amendment as its terms and services agreement without some sort of a draconian policy (like being unable to change their declaration whenever they feel like it). However, it's not so much that these platforms have the ability to shut people down willy nilly that's problematic, it's the fact that they or their parent companies control the market.
I'm a leftist who actually thinks this issue can be solved by the free market, it's just that there might not be a market as such, currently. The SEC regulations are particularly on the nose: the SEC exists so that the stock market functions. Without it there'd be too many Bernie Madoffs and Enrons to make it worth investing. Which would be bad. Google and Apple being the market for competing apps is a bit like Amazon owning the NYSE. That would be bad.
Greenwald was making a point like this on the intercept. That it's the vertical integration of these platforms that is potentially problematic, not really their size. I really can't be persuaded to give a shit how big youtube is, and how capriciously they ban people from their services: provided you can just go ahead and download a competitor's app.