- No more free speech on YouTube,
Instagram, or TikTok.
More government surveillance
of our social media communications.
Is that what Joe Biden really thinks?
I'm not making this up.
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Hey creator, I'm Ian Corzine,
your social media lawyer.
I've been doing some
research on who to vote for,
for this upcoming November
presidential election,
if it happens, and I was quite surprised
when I looked into Joe Biden's history,
what he believes on social media issues.
Have you ever wondered why we can say
almost anything we want on social media?
It's because many countries have laws
that insulate social media
platforms from lawsuit
for the negative, or sometimes harmful,
things that we say on the
social media platforms.
Under these laws, social media platforms
are not motivated to censor us,
because they're not
liable for what we say.
Well, surprising to me,
Joe Biden wants to revoke these laws.
In an interview with "The New York Times"
on January 16th, 2020, Joe Biden referred
to America's social media
platform immunity law,
the Communication Decency Act
Section 230 and said this,
"The Times can't write
something you know to be false
and be exempt from being sued."
But he can.
The idea that it's a tech company
is that Section 230 should be revoked,
immediately should be revoked,
number one, for Zuckerberg
and the other platforms.
You know the analogy's a little confusing.
It would be more compelling
if we were talking
about content coming out from
the platforms themselves.
You know "The New York Times"
is generally not liable
for the opinions expressed
by people submitting letters
to the editor, just like
social media platforms
are generally not liable for the content
that their creators produce.
But regardless, presidential
candidate Joe Biden's position
is clear and it has not
changed during the campaign.
He would like to revoke social
media platform immunity laws.
What does that mean?
In my opinion, it means
an end to free speech
on the internet.
If a social media platform
could be held civilly liable
for its users' content,
then the social media platform
is not gonna allow user-generated content.
Or at the very least, it's
not gonna allow user content
that hasn't been fully
vetted by its lawyers.
So now you know Joe Biden's
position on free speech
on the internet.
Are you gonna vote for him?
Let me know in the comments section below.
Now let's move on to Joe Biden's
views on internet privacy.
Online privacy is a broad term,
but a key component of
it is the people's right
to communicate freely on
the internet without fear
that the government is
monitoring what they say.
If you're a supporter of free
communication on the internet,
give me a thumbs up
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for this video.
On the subject of online privacy,
Joe Biden has been remarkably unclear.
While he favors consumes' right
to control their private information,
he also appears to favor
governmental surveillance
of our private information.
In 1994, he wrote a law
that required telecom
and broadband to make
their equipment accessible
by federal law enforcement for
monitoring and surveillance.
He also wrote a law that required
mobile phone manufacturers
to include a trap door in its equipment
so that federal law
enforcement could monitor
and could de-encrypt
information on those phones.
These actions show that
Joe Biden is in favor
of government surveillance
of our social media communications.
Are you on board?
Let me know in the comment section below.
All right, now let's talk
about Joe Biden's views
on net neutrality,
Joe Biden, himself, hasn't said much
about net neutrality during his campaign.
However, his campaign advisors say
that Joe Biden is a strong
supporter of net neutrality.
What does that mean?
If you're a supporter of net neutrality,
you believe that internet
service providers should treat
all data on the internet the same.
That means they cannot throttle.
That means they can
not slow down some data
for some customers and speed
up data for other customers
by charging exorbitant fees.
In 2015, the US Federal
Communications Commission made a law
that allowed it to enforce net
neutrality on the internet.
In 2017, at the insistence
of President Donald Trump,
this law was repealed.
The current state of the law is
that the Federal Communications Commission
cannot enforce net neutrality,
only the States can.
In 2007, Joe Biden did
not support the passing
of a net neutrality law in the US.
His first presidential campaign
event was held by Comcast,
an ISP worth $200 billion.
Huge broadband providers like Verizon,
Charter, and Mediacom,
they're all supporters
of the campaign of Joe Biden.
Alright, so what do you think?
If Joe Biden is elected president,
will he reverse the current
state of American law
and enforce net neutrality for the land,
or will he sit on the sidelines,
because he has a lot of
ISP donors and do nothing?
Let me know in the comment section below.
All right, now let's really
dive deep into the subject
of the US presidential elections.
President Trump recently
tweeted that he wanted to delay
the US presidential elections.
Can he do this, legally?
if you want to know the answer,
watch my video right here.
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And, as always, as you watch,
I'll be at iancorzine.com
to answer any social media
law questions you have.
