YouTube not bound by first amendment

submitted by jamesK_3rd from (reason.com)

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]steaknpotatoes 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I can see you didn't really try to understand my points and are one of these people that thinks the market corrects itself all the time and that monopolies, duopolies, captured markets, mega corporations etc should be able to wreak havoc on our first amendment rights and fourth amendment right without regulation. No thanks your brand of libertarian is dangerous to a free people and the rights they're guaranteed in the US constitution.

[–]Drewski 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I did though, I replied to each of them. I don't think the market is the end all, you didn't address my response at all. My main point was that this government that is violating our rights on a massive scale is not to be trusted with more power to regulate the internet.

[–]steaknpotatoes 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You want to allow a few tech corporations to decide what people can say and express online, hell under your Laissez-faire ideas ISPs and telecoms can just deny you service totally if they don't like you. That's just ridiculous, which is why I'm not gonna argue much further. How about phone app stores there's only 2 that have captured 99.999% of the market, and somehow you think the market will magically correct this, wake up it's not fixing itself. Yeah lets allow drug companies to only allow certain people to have their life saving drugs. Simplistic lazy libertarian views are dangerous and the thing is your support for allowing big tech to censor based on political biases you'll most likely be one of the people silenced.

Under a public forum designation the government would only step in if Youtube was not allowing free speech, so maybe you just don't like free speech, hard to tell. Oh and net neutrality is a good thing, these few private ISPs need to stay the fuck off our internet traffic.