Here’s a thought, extending off of this and Volokh’s article: Section 230 is violative of American’s First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
Section 230 grants online service providers (OSPs) the safe harbor from liability for things posted on their sites by third parties as long as they’re acting as ‘mere conduits’ and not as publishers. For instance, if someone tries to sell children on eBay (clearly illegal), eBay is not held liable. They’re acting as a mere conduit of information. Further Sec. 230 allows them to take down illegal amd offensive material if they are not acting as a publisher.
So, the Courts now allow Twitter and YouTube to delete mews posted by third-parties (i.e., folks like us, GEOTUS, Sidney Powell, etc.) if they go against ‘community standards.’ This interpretation of 230 by the Courts is acting as a de facto bar against our (us “journalists/reporters”) First Amendment rights as they are allowing the SoMe companies to act in the stead of the government, shutting down us down in an act of prior restraint.
And because they are doing it in a way that is unequal - restraining Conservative speech while favoring Liberal speech - it’s violative of the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection clause.
Here’s a thought, extending off of this and Volokh’s article: Section 230 is violative of American’s First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
Section 230 grants online service providers (OSPs) the safe harbor from liability for things posted on their sites by third parties as long as they’re acting as ‘mere conduits’ and not as publishers. For instance, if someone tries to sell children on eBay (clearly illegal), eBay is not held liable. They’re acting as a mere conduit of information. Further Sec. 230 allows them to take down illegal amd offensive material if they are not acting as a publisher.
So, the Courts now allow Twitter and YouTube to delete mews posted by third-parties (i.e., folks like us, GEOTUS, Sidney Powell, etc.) if they go against ‘community standards.’ This interpretation of 230 by the Courts is acting as a de facto bar against our (us “journalists/reporters”) First Amendment rights as they are allowing the SoMe companies to act in the stead of the government, shutting down us down in an act of prior restraint.
And because they are doing it in a way that is unequal - restraining Conservative speech while favoring Liberal speech - it’s violative of the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection clause.
Thoughts?
Agree 100%. Kind of fucked that the government is so inept it cant even hold these tech tyrants accountable.
Just call them into the office and dress em down every couple months without detention.