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April 10, 2018Sooooooooooo. Mark Zuckerberg Had To Use A Booster Seat.
April 10, 2018Zuckerberg may have just killed Facebook as we know it with one simple sentence:
#Zuckerberg Admits, ‘We’re Responsible For The Content.’
He May Have Just Bankrupted His Own Company: https://t.co/iKsxoVZloJpic.twitter.com/2VhyOWeptK
— Ryan Saavedra 🇺🇸 (@RealSaavedra) April 10, 2018
“I agree that we’re responsible for the content.”
This is a very, very big deal.
Ben Shapiro (my conservative intellectual idol) explains why:
Zuckerberg may have just opened himself up to a world of legal hurt. Platforms are generally not held legally responsible for the content posted on those platforms – so liability issues ranging from copyright violation to slander aren’t serious concerns for platforms. You can’t sue AT&T if somebody slanders you on a telephone call carried by their satellites. But that’s not the case with publishers. Publishers are responsible for the content that is added to their platforms. The Daily Wire bears legal liability for the content that goes up at The Daily Wire.
If the same were held to be true for Facebook, the company would immediately become subject to hundreds of millions of dollars in legal liability. For example, copyright violation bears a statutory penalty of between $750 and $30,000 per violation. How many unlicensed photos are posted on Facebook daily? On a minute-by-minute basis? Now, instead of a photo journalist suing the person who posted the photo, the photo journalist could sue Facebook itself. And Facebook’s pockets are a lot deeper.
This is the problem with determining that you are going to treat your platform as a political outlet. Zuckerberg made that decision months ago in response to the 2016 election, as Wired detailed. Now his company could pay the price.
HOLY. FREAKING. CRAP.
