Posted: Aug 10, 2018 11:40 am
Teague wrote:Matt_B wrote:The potential problem with the social media giants is entirely down to them being effective monopolies. If you're kicked off, say, Facebook or YouTube, you can't simply go somewhere else because no other platforms offer the same thing. Also, when multiple social media platforms can get together and do it at the same time for entirely arbitrary reasons, you can't even go somewhere else and do something different; that's rather a lot of power concentrated in a few boardrooms.
What "arbitrary" reasons would they be?
They're whatever the platform owners want them to be. They get to set the rules, interpret them, decide appropriate sanctions and have all the discussions behind closed doors. Even if the results are ultimately the same, and in the case of Alex Jones I'd fully agree with their stated reasons for banning him, I wouldn't mind seeing a bit more transparency and accountability to the process.