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| Outside Facebook, Menlo Park, 2018 |
Katharine Trendacosta has a brief but useful op-ed to
open the new month, “It’s not 230 you hate, it’s Oligopolies.
My take is that Facebook and YouTube could deal with
the loss of 230 by turning into either ephemerals (Facebook becomes a glorified
snapchat) or mini-Netlfix.
YouTube would continue to accept content from previously
non-established people, but it would vet them carefully, especially for social
creditworthiness. Hopefully it wouldn’t
get fooled by critical theory.
YouTube had hinted this back in 2018 in response to
the EU Copyright Directive, which Susan realized was an attack on the idea of
lettering amateurs lowball established media companies and drive people out of
work.
The usual criticisms of removing 203 is that small
companies could not get started. Well
not if they allowed users to add content. So the natural answer is to
strengthen anti-trust laws or litigation, which has already started against
Facebook.
Yet, for all intents and purposes, Mark Zuckerberg,
Susan Wojcicki and Jack Dorsey became unelected co-presidents of the United
States from January 7 until Biden took the oath on January 20. And we have Tim Pool to keep them in check.
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