Section 230 gives social media companies protection from lawsuits based on what people post to their sites. They call themselves a platform rather than a publisher, so they can't be held liable. However, they censor and editorialise willy nilly so that protection should be taken away.
If you're going to silence some people, then we should take it that anything not censored is approved by them. Right now they get the best of both worlds, they choose what goes on their site and can't be held liable for any of it.
its a law that gives google/twitter/facebook immunity from what appears on their platforms, due to the theory they are communication platforms, and not publishers.
it's modeled on the immunity telephone companies have for what happens in a phone call, as they only provide transit of the phone call.
but its pretty clear to me, google/twitter/facebook have way crossed the line, by controlling the content on their platform with account disablements, adding "flags" to tweets etc.
I hear this, what exactly is 230?
How much did they kick back to Obama and swing voters on that one?
Section 230 gives social media companies protection from lawsuits based on what people post to their sites. They call themselves a platform rather than a publisher, so they can't be held liable. However, they censor and editorialise willy nilly so that protection should be taken away.
If you're going to silence some people, then we should take it that anything not censored is approved by them. Right now they get the best of both worlds, they choose what goes on their site and can't be held liable for any of it.
its a law that gives google/twitter/facebook immunity from what appears on their platforms, due to the theory they are communication platforms, and not publishers.
it's modeled on the immunity telephone companies have for what happens in a phone call, as they only provide transit of the phone call.
but its pretty clear to me, google/twitter/facebook have way crossed the line, by controlling the content on their platform with account disablements, adding "flags" to tweets etc.