> In any case, it would mean that those videos would have to be self hosted and published, we'd see an en masse return of websites like college humor and cracked and the like, albeit without the comments switched on.
You seem to be making many assumptions here.
(1) I don’t think this cripples the mega social media companies. They already have thousands of attorneys — they will be busy for a year shedding by liability risk by crafting more onerous ToS that we all end up agreeing to.
(2) Nobody “self hosts” from soup-to-nuts (except for the biggest companies in the world). Your ISP, your DNS provider, your cloud host, etc. all benefit from Sec 230 protections to some extent. We have to wait to see the fallout of those layers.
(3) Companies like College Humor and Cracked benefitted from viral marketing of social networks. If your implied expectation comes true and big social media companies are crippled by this ruling, there will be fewer upstart acts like College Humor and Cracked that grow to become something notable.
(4) Even small companies like College Humor and Cracked won’t be immune from this new redefinition of the line between platform/publisher and speech. My suspicion is this ruling pulled out a Jenga piece, but it will be a while before we see how the tower of internet economics falls.
You seem to be making many assumptions here.
(1) I don’t think this cripples the mega social media companies. They already have thousands of attorneys — they will be busy for a year shedding by liability risk by crafting more onerous ToS that we all end up agreeing to.
(2) Nobody “self hosts” from soup-to-nuts (except for the biggest companies in the world). Your ISP, your DNS provider, your cloud host, etc. all benefit from Sec 230 protections to some extent. We have to wait to see the fallout of those layers.
(3) Companies like College Humor and Cracked benefitted from viral marketing of social networks. If your implied expectation comes true and big social media companies are crippled by this ruling, there will be fewer upstart acts like College Humor and Cracked that grow to become something notable.
(4) Even small companies like College Humor and Cracked won’t be immune from this new redefinition of the line between platform/publisher and speech. My suspicion is this ruling pulled out a Jenga piece, but it will be a while before we see how the tower of internet economics falls.