Mike Benz

That's like that's defamation per se.

Like, yes.

And the standard is criminal or something.

What I'm saying is, is.

Even defamation per se, that still has to be determined by a court.

I think there are issues around a social media platform stepping in after something has been determined by a court of law to serve as this kind of pre-court of law before it's been legally found.

And that process...

for there to be any liability on YouTube's end.

I mean, you have to basically argue that they have to basically make an assessment.

They have to make a legal assessment of a person's entire posting history.

Is there evidence Erica Kirk is contemplating a lawsuit against YouTube?

Well, yeah, but I just wanted to say a quick thing, which has been haunting me all day since this thing came out, to kind of piggyback on what Tim was saying.

There's another line, because Tim is sort of

concerned with the the kind of defamation, lawfare, obliterating section 230 protections because of this.

It's made possible potentially by this lawsuit.

I see this and I look at its potential for killing the sovereignty of the platforms for control over their own algorithm and that is because they're basically arguing that the algorithm is addictive and that

You know, I would not be surprised to see a push to have sort of third party vetted.

There was a big push starting in 2021 for something they called middleware.

This was this was a news guard, which.

I assume came after you.