Unless it can be shown that any company providing this kind of service would either make money from this approach or not lose money/subscribers from this approach, it won't happen absent laws or regulations. These companies have proven consistently that they are either unwilling or unable to police themselves. I'll suggest that the fetishization of capitalism in this country devalues considerations of free expression. (The expansion of IP laws vis-a-vis fair use and public domain considerations could be a conversation in parallel with what we've been hashing out.) The free expression of those with money, power, or a platform that has either wins out over those that could benefit from a system that truly values free expression. One way to perceive this discussion is about the gap between where things are and where we think we ought to be. Regrettably, getting to where we ought to be is more achievable by acting from where we are than from where we ought to be. The last two years have shown repeatedly that money matters most. Our lives don't matter as much as we want them to, and our ideas and any connection to the truth matter even less. Damn, that's dark. But I'm not in the mood for sugarcoating. David
On Saturday, February 5, 2022, 02:45:22 PM PST, PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote: If I had the chance to have dinner with Neil Young, I would suggest to him that rather than calling for Rogan to be banned from Spotify, he propose specific guidelines that all speech and music on Spotify should follow (e.g. 1. Do not misrepresent qualifications; 2. Do not advocate treatments which have not been supported; 3. Do not misrepresent the evidence about treatments that have been supported). These guidelines then apply to everyone equally, not just Joe Rogan. Critics of vaccines could still say “I wouldn’t get vaccinated because we still don’t know enough about their long term consequences”, but if a Podcaster repeatedly spreads the message that Vaccines increase infant mortality, or cause heart attacks, or alter your DNA, they would be first suspended and then, if repeated, removed. I guess that proposal would be harder to fit in a Tweet, but I think it would be more consistent with core values. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/604969686.160653.1644103215922%40mail.yahoo.com.