On: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube

[brookst]

That would make sense if this were a math theorem, but law and liability and society don’t usually work like math.

Theee things can be true:

1. YT and similar give people a platform for speech

2. So long as they make a good faith effort to identify and remove content that is illegal, the hosted speech is not theirs.

3. As platform owner they are also free to exercise speech by moderating topics for any or no reason

[tshaddox → brookst]

What then is the distinction between YouTube and a newspaper?

[neilcj → tshaddox]

In your analogy, YouTube is the paperboy and the video producer is the newspaper.