[IP] YouTube refuses Lieberman request (re removing content attributed to "Islamust terrorist organizations")

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Declan McCullagh [declan@well.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:17 PM
To: David Farber
Cc: ip; victormarks@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:  YouTube refuses Lieberman request (re removing content attributed to "Islamust terrorist organizations")

Victor Marks wrote:
> Freedom of speech in the US (Google is a US company) allows terrorists
> and their supporters to say what they wish - although freedom of
> speech does not compel Google to give them a stage and audience.

Nobody is saying otherwise. What serious person would argue that Google
is "compelled" to provide anyone a YouTube platform?

The questions before us are whether Google and its peers (a) will see
their 230 immunity weakened, (b) will be compelled through force of law
to censor, which is what Lieberman suggested yesterday to us through his
spokeswoman and what Durban said today in the hearing, and (c) whether a
hypothetical Lieberman-Durban censorship law would pass First Amendment
muster.

-Declan



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