I am setting up this blog to address a number of technical and legal issues that, over the long run, can affect the freedom of media newbies like me to speak freely on the Internet and other low-cost media that have developed in the past ten years.
Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!
Twitter tightens rules on disparaging or "hate speech" while Carlos Maza remains an untouchable Thanos; YouTube could stop all comments
Twitter has called out the White House on its manipulated
media policy, regarding a post and video misrepresenting Joe Biden, Mashable
storyhere.
Twitter also marked a post by Cameron Kasky, the
19-year old Columbia Student (from March for our Lives and friend of David
Hogg) where he presents himself as a presidential candidate as “sensitive
content”.Of course, informed users know
that he cannot become president (minimum age 35) but wants to make a point that
the current choices for president are too old, which is, frankly, dangerous for
the country, and that much younger people should run for office.
Twitter has also banned “dehumanizing” posts about
age, disability or disease (including infection with coronavirus), The Verge,
story by Jay Peters.
Twitter has also disciplined a New York Post reporter
for “exposing” left-wing YouTuber and former Vox creator Carlos Maza, as
wealthy and hypocritic.I also notice
that there are plenty of other young men on YouTube with a charismatic presence,
some of them gay, and Stephen Crowder leaves them alone. In fact, some of them
are libertarians or conservatives and Crowder likes them. He picked on Maza
over apparent hypocrisy. We all watched the dominoes fall and live with the
consequences.
OTHER NOTES: Ian Corzine discusses the possibility that YouTube may eventually disable comments on all videos, not just made-for-kids, because of subtle downstream liability exposures. BBC reports some YouTubers have gotten copyright strikes and takedowns for complicated videos showing other people reacting to memes or music, a tricky issue. Corzine's site has some ideas as to how to use music safely; I may come back to that topic later.
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