Comments on: YouTube Still Isn’t a State Actor–Albertson v. Google https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2024/02/youtube-still-isnt-a-state-actor-albertson-v-google.htm Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: KingCaster https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2024/02/youtube-still-isnt-a-state-actor-albertson-v-google.htm#comment-4297 Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:23:00 +0000 https://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=26061#comment-4297 Yeah Eric and it's still bullshit. You declined a public debate over Wadler v. Custard (unconscionability) and anything else when I sued Facebook and you know damn well that these companies have become Judge Jury and Executioner when it comes to the town hall First Amendment.
https://www.scribd.com/document/392343705/KingCast-v-Facebook-Censorship-9th-Circuit-Court-of-Appeals-Brief
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It has reached the point now where to resolve a case I need to seek permission from Facebook to remove some of my posts, meanwhile Facebook/Meta also strikes my posts for some of the most frivolous reasons you could imagine, such as "trying to get likes in a dishonest way" when all my black ass did was to tag 4 friends of mine who were all at the same event with me. Meanwhile I can get spammed all day long by people selling cars, etc. who have 90+ tags. It's crap and you know it.

]]> By: Jonathan Affleck https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2024/02/youtube-still-isnt-a-state-actor-albertson-v-google.htm#comment-4109 Thu, 22 Feb 2024 01:23:00 +0000 https://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=26061#comment-4109 I am having a problem with LinkedIn because in a comment I stated a fact that many users did not like. LinkedIn banned me permanently, and now I cannot participate in many forums of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Commonwealth has a symbiotic relationship with LinkedIn. I know that only one plaintiff succeeded by means of the symbiotic-relationship test, but I have been consulting an attorney and hypothesize that it might be worthwhile to try the symbiotic-relationship test in the context of the Internet.

I describe the interaction of law with technology below.

Technology Overview

14. A state becomes inextricably entwined with a 2023 social medium platform when it uses the forum of the social medium platform to create a state public forum, to make state announcements like job postings, or to discuss state legal procedures or rules. The 2023 social medium platform transmits its messages in state networks and runs its software on state end user computing devices. The 2023 social medium platform provides a substitute for a state web or cloud site. Bailment of the state’s messages in a backend server is used to attract “eyes-on-a-page” to a web page of the 2023 social medium platform. Such involvement of the state and the 2023 social medium platform in each other’s business and activities is much more than the grant of a liquor license and represents inextricable entwinement to the point of symbiosis.
15. The state public forum exists within the forum of the 2023 social medium platform. The 2023 social medium platform’s forum exists within the government-designated public forum of the Internet. Not only is the Internet a government-designated public forum, but the Internet also belongs to the class of “Establishments affecting interstate commerce or supported in their activities by State action as places of public accommodation.” The preceding clause does not require the Internet to be a place of public accommodation but only requires the Internet to be like or as a place of public accommodation. The same logic desegregated a public drinking fountain, which is an establishment supported by state action as a place of public accommodation for drinking water. A public drinking fountain is a device (a valve on a water pipe) and not a place that one can enter. A 2023 social medium platform is located within the Internet because it is located by connection and by IP address within the premises of the Internet. The definition of the word “premises” includes grounds and appurtenances, which include wiring. The phrase “places of public accommodations” includes a public facility like a public drinking fountain or like the Internet because a public facility is like or as a place of public accommodation.

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