Notices by David (david1@mastodon.world)

@GottaLaff Every teacher should ask "How many of these Bible rules has Donald Trump broken?"

#FoxNews repeats #Russian talking points over and over again. And they do this (apparently) without getting paid. To be fair, the #MSM often does the same thing.
#RussianAsset #Russia #uspol #uspolitics

https://www.foxnews.com/world/putin-says-he-backs-harris-over-trump-adds-hes-ready-talks-ukraine

The names being floated for VP, like Josh Shapiro and Mark Kelly, are all far better Presidential candidates than #KamalaHarris because they are Democratic politicians from "Swing States". So making those white males the Presidential candidate would almost certainly mean #Democrats would win the states electoral votes. But making them VP candidates brings nothing.
#usa #uspol #biden

https://www.wesa.fm/2024-07-21/a-few-people-are-in-the-running-to-be-vp-if-harris-becomes-the-presidential-nominee

@zuck So when I post this, it shows up on Threads also?

@DeanBaker13 @mmasnick @timjan @GreenFire Let's take as an example of "smaller sites" video sharing sites - like YouTube but smaller. Examples are Vimeo, DTube, Dailymotion, etc. For these companies, DMCA compliance is important. One might expect these companies would be shut down because DMCA is stricter making compliance is too expensive. But this has not happened at all. The real problem is people prefer YouTube.

@DeanBaker13 @mmasnick @timjan @GreenFire I gotta admit I'm not even sure what sites he refers to when he's referring to smaller sites. Section 230 helped create the giant social media companies, and because of that, the smaller sites have mostly died.

@mmasnick I would say the Thomas/Gorsuch view Section 230 turns media companies into common carriers makes more sense than you make it out to be. Section 230 allows companies to legally do content moderation but only if such actions are "taken in good faith". For example, if left wing spam, but not right wing spam, is blocked, it's not in good faith. But this inability to be partisan about spams is what is meant by calling them "common carriers".