This is a good question.
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irotsoma@lemmy.world 4 days ago
So if YouTube is now serving up the ads directly to me, does that mean they’re finally liable for the content of those ads? Can we have them investigated for all the malware, phishing, illegal hate speech, etc.?
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 4 days ago
shades@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Great, now it’s Russian roulette every time you hit that pause button. <clickPause> ¡BOOM ZERODAY MALWARE!
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
no because of sec 230 and publisher rights, they were still directly serving them before, the only difference now is that it’s tied into the video stream directly, rather than broken out as a second one.
irotsoma@lemmy.world 2 days ago
In the past they have always said that they aren’t transmitting the content and so it’s the responsibility of the transmitter of the data. Now the content at least appears to be coming from youtube not the advertisers. So I’m curious if that’s enough to make it fall under section 230 which would require that they make a good faith effort to remove “objectionable” content.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
legally that’s the same as far as courts care.
The only thing that would change this is a ruling on advertiser responsibility. Or something tangentially related that would force them to properly regulate ads for example.
Ultimately i’m guessing unless youtube rolls their own inhome ads, instead of allowing other advertising agencies to run their ads on youtube, it simply wouldn’t apply here.
dan@upvote.au 3 days ago
now serving up the ads directly to me
What do you think they were doing before? 🤔
and no, in the USA they’re still protected under Section 230.
Balthazar@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Does anybody know how this will affect the EU?
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 days ago
No, because that would be communism, and that killed 100 million people. You also think genocide is bad, aren’t you? And besides of that, if there were less regulations, you could make your own video platform to challenge Google’s monopoly!
pyre@lemmy.world 3 days ago
i think people may have missed that you’re not serious
L3dpen@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Reading comprehension is for people who paid attention in school. Nerds.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 days ago
The problem with pretending to be a dumbass on the Internet, is it’s almost impossible to outdo the professionals.
Badland9085@lemm.ee [bot] 3 days ago
It’s not possible for everyone to just tell if it’s supposed to be sarcasm. ADHD makes it hard. A bad day makes it hard. A tiring day makes it hard.
The downside of the misunderstanding isn’t just downvotes. It’s possibly a proliferation of misinformation and an impression that there are people who DO think that way.
Being not serious while saying something grim is not a globally understood culture either. It’s more common and acceptable in the Western world as a joke.
So… call it accessibility, but it’s just more approachable for everyone to just put an “/s”.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Well… Communism is directly responsible for multiple famines that killed into the hundreds of millions. Then there are the inevitable purges that have taken millions of lives and hosts of terrors as well.
You’re free to dispute history if you need to, and claim that theoretically communism is nice, but in practice, history tells us that living under communism reaaaalllyy sucks.
Teils13@lemmy.eco.br 3 days ago
There are people here not from western europe or north america, we felt all of that and beyond with capitalism too. Do you think Asia and Africa, who received aid and support from the soviet union to free themselves from capitalist Europeans will fall for that ? Where did you arrive at ''multiple famines that killed into the hundreds of millions" ? Even the soviet famines of 1930s and chinese great famine ‘only’ killed at maximum intervals of estimation 9 and 50 millions each, and this [article](Mass killings under communist regimes) over-viewing all atrocities maxes at 150 million, with a low 10-20 million estimation, not hundreds of millions in famines alone.
Are you paraphrasing that ‘Black Book of Communism’ shtick ? It is a propaganda tool not valid in actual academic research, even by liberals that are not fraudsters, because the author twists every single communist countries-adjacent deaths as ‘‘mass killing caused by communism’’, including brilliant takes like total number of abortions (ex: France, that practices 250.000 abortions per year must be enraged with a capitalist regime that killed 5 million people only in the 21st century !) and all WW2 eastern front deaths (so both the nazi germans and allies that invaded USSR and USSR soldiers and civilians count as ‘killed by communism’)
pyre@lemmy.world 3 days ago
that’s like saying capitalism is directly responsible for school shootings because it happens all the time in the US. but no one’s dumb enough to claim that.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
TBF, stalinism wasn’t really communism, it was more authoritarianism than anything, but.
el_abuelo@programming.dev 3 days ago
Poe’s law
anzo@programming.dev 3 days ago
This kind of messages should have a “/s” attached. IMHO, that’s just proper Netiquette.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I kind of inferred the /s by the end of the post, but respect that such inference isn’t universal. Also there are many /s comments that I wouldn’t infer if it wasn’t explicit.
Brewchin@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Now there’s a term I’ve not seen in many years.
And dates both of us, I expect… 😄