For those of you who are 1st Amendment right lovers beware you will not like this.
But’s that’s ok because my stance makes sense and best of all it protects’ kids.
In Italy this week a Judge sentenced executives of YOU TUBE founder, Google to jail for allowing a video to be displayed of a disabled kid being attacked by classmates.
Yea it seems draconian but it reinforces the need for some freaking limits on what people can post about other people without any authority let alone responsibility for their actions.
You tube and facebook have made running a school an impossibility. Johnny puts something up at midnight and there’s a brawl the next day in the cafeteria.
This isn’t free speech, it’s free gossip mongering. An adult company like Google needs to be able to monitor what is posted on their site.
Good for the Italian Judge!
Ask any American school principal and they will tell you online bs has further crippled their ability to maintain a safe and orderly school environment.
I can’t disagree with you more.
I agree that the new social media have made it extremely easy to gain a very high profile for some of the most inane, maddening and intrusive commentary ever uttered, filmed or recorded. Google, Facebook and others certainly have a right — and some might suggest an obligation — to control what is posted and oust posters to maintain a civil meetingplace.
If people don’t like those limits, they are free to elist over at BoobBook or some other roadhouse of their liking.
But your suggestion that there is a proper role in this for the state is wrongheaded, I think. People whose legal rights are violated should be free to seek damages in the courts, but prior restraint is not the right course.
Let the marketplace regulate by voting with their mouses, to rip a phase.
This does assume a much deeper, much more “intrusive” parental hand on the Internet connection, and I’m afraid I hold out scant hope for that.