So essentially all the platforming is is when content creators are removed from the different platforms that they use in order to distribute their contents.

If you look at Facebook, if you look at Twitter, if you look at YouTube, if you look at many other platforms, basically all they dio is in order to quote unquote d platform content Creator is they remove them from the platform.

They may ban them.

They may block them.

They may delete their accounts.

So on and so forth.

You've probably heard of this lately with people such as Alex Jones or the Daily Stormer, or possibly a gap dot com.

You will hurt here that they have been the platform, and what this means is that they have been removed from the platforms that they use.

Why this is important in this modern world is because many of us, when we go onto the Internet use platforms.

We don't use our own server infrastructure anymore.

Many times, we're using other people's platforms.

If you're going to be doing video distribution, you use YouTube.

If you're going to be doing tweets.

You use Twitter, you know short communication.

If you're trying to create communities, you go to Facebook.

And the thing is, if you get the platform, if you get removed from these different platforms, it could become very difficult to try to accomplish what you're trying to accomplish before now The question is is is a DEA platforming illegal?

So a lot of people when they hear about the platform and they think, Oh, especially because many of these companies air in the United States and the people affected This is a violation of the First Amendment.

This is a violation of free speech was important.

Understand that the First Amendment is between the citizens of the United States and the government of the United States is not between the citizens and companies or Maur less between citizens individually is between the citizens and the government.

So theoretically, basically, the idea being that these corporations can silence lee you they can throw you off the platform or such because they have no requirement in order to allow you to speak on their platform.

These air these air corporations, these air companies, many of them are public companies such as a alphabet, owns YouTube.

Facebook is a public company, Twitter is a public company.

So these air for profit companies, the idea being if you reduce doing something that damages the company, there should be no reason that they can't shut you off the platform if you violate the terms of service.

So that's one of the questions that comes up is the terms of service.

So these air the contract that you signed in order to use these platforms.

Now it's important.

Understand that in the normal world, contracts are generally two sided.

Ah, contract has to be written by whoever's creating a contract.

But then the person who is signing the contract has to be of sound mind in order to to sign the sign the contract.

So you can't be drinking alcohol.

You have to be in a proper mental state in order for the contract to be illegal.

Not only that, but specific provision in the contract that are significant half through, pointed out those specific provisions have to be initial officer.

The person says that they agree, and so although one person writes the contract and therefore may be biased the other person has to be of sound sound mind.

They have to to be able to comprehend what they're signing, and by and large they actually have to know what it is they're signing.

Beyond that, contracts in the boat in the normal world actually protect both sides.

So if I'm going to do a contract in orderto have renovations done on my house, if the contract will stay that if I do not pay the contractor that the contractor consume me, of course.

But it will also state that if the contractor does not do what's ever stipulated, the contract that I don't have to pay them or I can sue them.

So when you deal with a normal contract, both sides are Maur.

There's bias.

Don't get me wrong.

There's bias, but more or less both sides protected.

When you deal with terms of service, this really is not the case.

Most of these terms of service is our 100% bias towards a corporation.

You either take it or leave it.

There is no way to check whether or not you're actually under sound mind when you're signing these terms of service, so think about it.

How many times have you collect?

Yes, I agree.

When you've had five or six beers, you've had alcohol.

You may have had something else.

You're too tired.

You're not able to comprehend.

Even if everything is written out in front of your you're not able to comprehend it.

But it doesn't matter.

You checked off to say that that you agreed so therefore, you agreed.

Beyond that, you make these terms of service is really long and involved, and nobody is going to end up reading them.

And so what companies do within the terms of service is they put in a lot of, Oh, a lot of wishy washy words.

You can say things like hate speech, your harassment or some other other types of words.

And then what they do is they don't define what that actually means.

If you put in there, if you state that you're going to try to physically harm somebody else, that's actually something that that can be tested against.

Did your comment or did your piece of content say that you're going to try to create violence against somebody else?

If yes, that you violated the rule if no, then not if you put in things like hate speech where you say if you make people uncomfortable or if you make the site on welcoming Well, then the question there becomes is what do those words actually mean?

Those words mean whatever the corporation decides those worlds mean and therefore they can say you violated those rules and there's really not much you can say about it.

They define those words mean something.

They say that you're violating that.

Therefore you get kicked off the platform.

And so when you look at these terms of service is and you look at the platforming generally by and large it is 100% legal.

And it's because the weird legal area that's comes up with these thes Web service is these cloud service is and things such as terms of service.

Now you may look a at the platforming, and you may think, Well, if you get kicked off of Twitter, Facebook or YouTube, I mean, that's a pain.

That's an issue.

But it's not that big a deal.

Right?

You've got You've got bit torrent.

Possibly you have FTP distribution.

You have good old fashioned email blast.

If you want to get your your your communications out there.

You may not like the people are thrown off of these platforms.

We may not think it's not that massive an issue, while the problem that we're running into nowadays is that many of us are using, service is And we never really thought about things, that his hate speech or what the terms of service was, were for things that are almost the pipe work and that the basic infrastructure of how many of us use the Internet.

So if you look at now, pay Pao.

So pay pal is now deep platforming people for violations, violating terms of service.

And so most of us gets going.

It's kind of think of papal almost as cash.

You know, you don't think about using cash if you've got cash in, the other person wants cash, you give it to him.

It just works.

And pay power in many ways has become the cache of the Internet.

When I paid my contractors in the past, I would just send the money.

You can send friends and family members money using paper out.

You can pay for those Cloud service is if you're gonna buy D.

N s or something else, you can use PayPal.

If you want to buy a product, you can use PayPal.

So PayPal has become a service that over the years has just become a de facto thing that many of us use.

And you don't think about because you don't.

You don't use PayPal to communicate at home.

I guess I could say something in the memo, but, you know, you really don't think about hate speech in papal.

But if papal sees that your company or what you're doing, they believe it violates their terms of service.

Then they can then shut you off of PayPal, and now you can no longer get money using PayPal, which could be a significant issue.

One of the bigger issues that's coming out now is where's now looking at D and S d platforming, and this is a severe thing.

That's a serious thing a lot of us really hadn't thought about before.

When you go out there and buy a D.

N s name, so geek, feel nuts.

Notes dot com fail normal dot com, gabbed dot com Whatever else, this is just a basic component of the Internet you need a domain name in order to point Thio a an i p address.

If you don't have the domain name, this becomes a big issue.

And so we've been buying domain names for a long time, and nobody, I don't think, really, ever thought about the terms of service.

Now, to be clear, if it's Isis buying a domain, I'm or Al Qaeda buying a domain name, or if it's some kind of piracy site that's pirating all the Disney movies and allowing people to download.

Now, of course, you know that that the law enforcement can step in, the courts can step in and that way's a domain name can be taken or a sight could be taken down.

But you don't You don't think about the D.

N s registrars themselves of their own volition doing that in the past again.

We have heard of domain names being taken a domain names being taken down because law enforcement action.

But you didn't hear of the registrar's themselves Go daddy, your host gator or whoever else taking it of their own volition to no longer support domain names.

So this is where we're seeing things with such as gabbed dot com Where Go Daddy has now d platform gabbed dot com from them hosting gabbed dot com as a.

D.

N s name for the register.

Why this becomes concerning is normally even with this, you sit there and you think about it.

Well, that's not too bad.

That's not too horrible, you know, you have to pay.

Okay, so you have to transfer your gap dot com or somebody else has to transfer their domain name from Go Daddy, the host Gator from Go Daddy Cloudflare from Glow Daddy toe to some other company.

OK, maybe they have to pay a transfer fee, which is kind of B s.

Yeah, you got to go through a couple day process again.

It kind of sucks, but overall, this isn't too bad.

This isn't too bad.

The problem that we're seeing, though in the modern world of these cloud service providers and and ah, you know, YouTube and Facebook and pay, pal and Go Daddy, is that many of them now are working in lock step, which creates a big question mark.

So when you see somebody platform from Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and iTunes and PayPal and a very short order.

One of the questions that has to be asked is, did they really violate all of those platforms?

Turbines of service At the exact same time, You think about a somebody who creates content.

You're going to put certain types of communication on Twitter and certain types of communication on Facebook and certain types of communication on YouTube.

And you're gonna use PayPal for what you use paypal for.

So what you have to ask is, did the person actually violate every all of these different carpet corporations terms of service at the exact same time to have them be thrown off more or less at the exact same time?

And so why that's important in the D.

N s world is because if everybody's working a lock step well, go.

Daddy doesn't want you, and then host Gator sees that go.

Daddy got rid of you so they don't want to deal with you.

And maybe Cloudflare doesn't want to deal with you.

And basically, everybody goes well, if go, Daddy doesn't want to deal with you, we don't want to deal with you.

Then all of a sudden you have nowhere to register your D.

N s name and therefore your Web presence essentially disappears.

And this is why this could be a really, really, really significant problem.

Now, a lot of people you're gonna be walking this and you think, Well, Eli, the dailies who cares of the daily Stormer gets the platform?

Who cares of Alex Jones?

Get these Gets the platform.

Who cares if gabbed dot com gets the platform?

These these people were saying hate speech.

They were saying horrible things and therefore they should be eliminated off the Internet.

The problem we run into, though in the modern world is the question again of what is hate Speech, frankly, may sound horrible, but sometimes what is valuable hate speak.

So if you look at the Arab spring, the Western world is very happy about the Arab spring.

Whether or not they should be dictators were overthrown.

Democracies are doing a little bit better.

Basically, the idea is that in the Middle East you had the Arab spring.

The locals were able to rise up, take more control over their government again.

This will help democracy rise.

This will be better for the people.

Well, if you look at it, though a lot of that was powered by Twitter.

A lot of it was powered by Twitter.

A lot of that was powered by Facebook.

And when we talk about violence and we talk about hate speech, that was actual violence.

Lots of people were actually, in fact killed.

There was a lot of bad stuff that went along with the air of the the the Arab spring.

And so the question then becomes is if you if you eliminate hate speed here for certain things, then what happens in these other countries?

What happens with next air of spring?

What happens with the next colored revolution?

What happens with any event when people are trying to communicate so that the local population contrite to get more control over their lives?

Well, if that's considered hate speech and that could be shut down, then you can run into problems.

And so that's when we start talking about hate speech.

I know a lot of ah, lot of folks think that when you talk about First Amendment rights or freedom of speak and talk about protecting hate speech, this is somehow seen as you know what what what are called the all right.