Name: Deplatforming - What is...
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T19:01:03.000Z
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So the question is, is what is the platform and why is this important in the modern world?

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So essentially all the platforming is is when content creators are removed from the different platforms that they use in order to distribute their contents.

If you look at Facebook, if you look at Twitter, if you look at YouTube, if you look at many other platforms, basically all they dio is in order to quote unquote d platform content Creator is they remove them from the platform.

You've probably heard of this lately with people such as Alex Jones or the Daily Stormer, or possibly a gap dot com.

You will hurt here that they have been the platform, and what this means is that they have been removed from the platforms that they use.

Why this is important in this modern world is because many of us, when we go onto the Internet use platforms.

We don't use our own server infrastructure anymore.

Many times, we're using other people's platforms.

If you're going to be doing video distribution, you use YouTube.

You use Twitter, you know short communication.

If you're trying to create communities, you go to Facebook.

And the thing is, if you get the platform, if you get removed from these different platforms, it could become very difficult to try to accomplish what you're trying to accomplish before now The question is is is a DEA platforming illegal?

So a lot of people when they hear about the platform and they think, Oh, especially because many of these companies air in the United States and the people affected This is a violation of the First Amendment.

This is a violation of free speech was important.

Understand that the First Amendment is between the citizens of the United States and the government of the United States is not between the citizens and companies or Maur less between citizens individually is between the citizens and the government.

So theoretically, basically, the idea being that these corporations can silence lee you they can throw you off the platform or such because they have no requirement in order to allow you to speak on their platform.

These air these air corporations, these air companies, many of them are public companies such as a alphabet, owns YouTube.

Facebook is a public company, Twitter is a public company.

So these air for profit companies, the idea being if you reduce doing something that damages the company, there should be no reason that they can't shut you off the platform if you violate the terms of service.

So that's one of the questions that comes up is the terms of service.

So these air the contract that you signed in order to use these platforms.

Understand that in the normal world, contracts are generally two sided.

Ah, contract has to be written by whoever's creating a contract.

But then the person who is signing the contract has to be of sound mind in order to to sign the sign the contract.

You have to be in a proper mental state in order for the contract to be illegal.

Not only that, but specific provision in the contract that are significant half through, pointed out those specific provisions have to be initial officer.

The person says that they agree, and so although one person writes the contract and therefore may be biased the other person has to be of sound sound mind.

They have to to be able to comprehend what they're signing, and by and large they actually have to know what it is they're signing.

Beyond that, contracts in the boat in the normal world actually protect both sides.

So if I'm going to do a contract in orderto have renovations done on my house, if the contract will stay that if I do not pay the contractor that the contractor consume me, of course.

But it will also state that if the contractor does not do what's ever stipulated, the contract that I don't have to pay them or I can sue them.

So when you deal with a normal contract, both sides are Maur.

There's bias, but more or less both sides protected.

When you deal with terms of service, this really is not the case.

Most of these terms of service is our 100% bias towards a corporation.

There is no way to check whether or not you're actually under sound mind when you're signing these terms of service, so think about it.

When you've had five or six beers, you've had alcohol.

Even if everything is written out in front of your you're not able to comprehend it.

You checked off to say that that you agreed so therefore, you agreed.

Beyond that, you make these terms of service is really long and involved, and nobody is going to end up reading them.

And so what companies do within the terms of service is they put in a lot of, Oh, a lot of wishy washy words.

You can say things like hate speech, your harassment or some other other types of words.

And then what they do is they don't define what that actually means.

If you put in there, if you state that you're going to try to physically harm somebody else, that's actually something that that can be tested against.

Did your comment or did your piece of content say that you're going to try to create violence against somebody else?

If yes, that you violated the rule if no, then not if you put in things like hate speech where you say if you make people uncomfortable or if you make the site on welcoming Well, then the question there becomes is what do those words actually mean?

Those words mean whatever the corporation decides those worlds mean and therefore they can say you violated those rules and there's really not much you can say about it.

Therefore you get kicked off the platform.

And so when you look at these terms of service is and you look at the platforming generally by and large it is 100% legal.

And it's because the weird legal area that's comes up with these thes Web service is these cloud service is and things such as terms of service.

Now you may look a at the platforming, and you may think, Well, if you get kicked off of Twitter, Facebook or YouTube, I mean, that's a pain.

If you want to get your your your communications out there.

You may not like the people are thrown off of these platforms.

We may not think it's not that massive an issue, while the problem that we're running into nowadays is that many of us are using, service is And we never really thought about things, that his hate speech or what the terms of service was, were for things that are almost the pipe work and that the basic infrastructure of how many of us use the Internet.

So pay pal is now deep platforming people for violations, violating terms of service.

It's kind of think of papal almost as cash.

You know, you don't think about using cash if you've got cash in, the other person wants cash, you give it to him.

And pay power in many ways has become the cache of the Internet.

When I paid my contractors in the past, I would just send the money.

You can send friends and family members money using paper out.

You can pay for those Cloud service is if you're gonna buy D.

N s or something else, you can use PayPal.

If you want to buy a product, you can use PayPal.

So PayPal has become a service that over the years has just become a de facto thing that many of us use.

And you don't think about because you don't.

You don't use PayPal to communicate at home.

I guess I could say something in the memo, but, you know, you really don't think about hate speech in papal.

But if papal sees that your company or what you're doing, they believe it violates their terms of service.

Then they can then shut you off of PayPal, and now you can no longer get money using PayPal, which could be a significant issue.

One of the bigger issues that's coming out now is where's now looking at D and S d platforming, and this is a severe thing.

That's a serious thing a lot of us really hadn't thought about before.