Sony DMCA's themselves on Twitter

[JWeinCom]

DonFerrari said:

JWeinCom said:

Yeah, kind of.  

I'm not an expert on this kind of law, but I'm 99% sure kind of thing would fall under the category of fair use.  While I sometimes wish there were, I'm pretty sure that there's no special rule that allows you to DMCA something because it has spoilers in it.  You're also free to criticize and generally to use images from the material in your criticism.

Sony is well within their rights to control things on their channels, and Twitter is within their rights to have a policy against certain things.  But I'm pretty sure this is going far beyond what the DMCA actually allows.  

I wasn't talking on the law side, because yes individual rights usually are above corporate rights. Usually only when public safety is at risk it does surpass individual right.

I was asking on his stance over spoilers and bad journalist festering on something that would damage a property and even a lot of people enjoyment of something against a company trying to protect their property and enjoyment of the fans.

We know that nowadays to many "journalists" don't behave like that nor do investigative journalism, the just gossip and clickbait to often to get an easier money. For those I have 0 respect (but yes they have the right to get their food), now journalist that do a serious job investigating corruption, corporate law breaking, etc those deserve every protection to do their job the best they can.

Corporations are actually treated as people legally :-/  Fucking citizens united.  But it's not really about corporations vs people.

I don't like the way the journalists and a lot of the fans have behaved, and I've expressed that.  But I'd say that Sony's actions are far more problematic here.  They are inappropriately using a law designed to help in legitimate cases of copyright violation to shut down people who are saying things they don't like, many of whom are admittedly assholes.  

I 100% agree with Sony in this case that it would be better if all of those posts were gone.  But, there are many youtube channels and such that I enjoy a lot that could be completely shut down by the same rationale.  Allowing people the freedom to express themselves and criticize is more important than preventing spoilers, even if that means some assholes are allowed to get through.