Nancy Pelosi and Fakebook Dirty Tricks
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Nancy Pelosi and Fakebook Dirty Tricks
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#2Why can't Nancy Pelosi sue facebook for $100 billion for allowing a doctored video about her to spread? They can't use the Napster defense of "we're only a platform."
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#3Why can't Nancy Pelosi sue facebook for $100 billion for allowing a doctored video about her to spread? They can't use the Napster defense of "we're only a platform."
Yes they can. Section 230 immunizes them from liability and allows them to moderate (or not) as they please.
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#5I wonder if it would have taken FB that long to demote the video if it had depicted Sandberg or Zuckerberg slinging racial slurs.
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#6I wonder if it would have taken FB that long to demote the video if it had depicted Sandberg or Zuckerberg slinging racial slurs.
That is an interesting question and could be empirically determined with an experiment.
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#7I wonder if it would have taken FB that long to demote the video if it had depicted Sandberg or Zuckerberg slinging racial slurs.
Hate speech and a slowed down video are two very different things.
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#8Why can't Nancy Pelosi sue facebook for $100 billion for allowing a doctored video about her to spread? They can't use the Napster defense of "we're only a platform."
$1.5 million reasons why she doesn't sue: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000033563&cy...
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#9>so are New York Times articles, because classy journalism looks good on the platform
Interesting that a journalist thinks that Facebook is optimized for what "looks good" rather than what drives eyeballs. Facebook is just giving the people what they want. (To say nothing of how self-congratulatory that sentence is)
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#10Why can't Nancy Pelosi sue facebook for $100 billion for allowing a doctored video about her to spread? They can't use the Napster defense of "we're only a platform."
$1.5 million reasons why she doesn't sue: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000033563&cy...
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=D000033563...
$16,450 to her in particular for those interested