YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead::The complementary lawsuits claim that the massacre in 2022 was made possible by tech giants, a local gun shop, and the gunman’s parents.

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Say what you want about youtube and reddit but if you want them to censor more and more you are creating a sword that can be used against you too. I also don’t like the idea of shooting the messenger no matter how much we may dislike the messages. When I hear lawsuits like this I always think it is greedy lawyers pushing people to sue because they see deep pockets.

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      1 year ago

      Right, so then they should be operated as a public telecom and be regulated as Title II. This would allow them to be free from such lawsuits.

      However, they want to remain as private for profit companies so they should be held responsible for not acting responsibly.

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        1 year ago

        It doesn’t make sense to treat websites as utilities. Net neutrality can’t be applied to websites, it would make most basic spam filtering infeasible and blow up operational costs