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Would it be more accurate to describe search/social media platforms as Marketing Mechanisms that solicit user-created search/content to generate revenues rather than as "media" platforms? The distinction is critical, for "free speech" is not a blanket carte blanche for marketing. If we remove search/social media from the category of "media" and create a new category Digital Marketing Mechanisms (DMM), then this new category necessarily requires a new regulatory structure and very different legal interpretations and protections of "free speech." The definition makes the world of difference. Which do you think social media is?
20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cotton 1 Nov
That’s a solid point.
Social media does act more like marketing mechanisms since they monetize user content.
A new category could change the way we think about free speech online.
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It would, at least, change the viewpoint on social media. Could it be called addictive? This is not just a platform for speech! I don’t know what to call it, but it is different.
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