Properly treating a company as publisher or platform based on their actions is not giving more power to the deep state. I normally respect Shapiro's arguments, even if I disagree with them, but this is garbage. We carved out a special sweetheart deal for tech companies so they could thrive and they used it to censor opinions they didn't like.
They want you to believe this is the government coming in and telling private companies how to do business and that because they're private, they can do whatever they want. That's not quite true though. They were legally protected private companies. Now that the government isn't going to give blanket protections to bad actors doesn't mean they are extending their power.
They are allowing the companies to be legally subjected to existing law the way any newspaper is if they decide they want to no longer be a publisher. You can't eat your cake and keep it too.
His other tweet is even more ridiculous. He completely straw-man’s the entire position by acting like we want to completely revoke section 230. As far as I understand, that’s not what anyone with more than 2 brain cells wants to do. Instead, people want to reform the law and to enforce it in its current form. This is essentially what Trump is doing.
Instead, he acts like we all want comment sections to be filled with terrorism and child pornography.
Properly treating a company as publisher or platform based on their actions is not giving more power to the deep state. I normally respect Shapiro's arguments, even if I disagree with them, but this is garbage. We carved out a special sweetheart deal for tech companies so they could thrive and they used it to censor opinions they didn't like.
They want you to believe this is the government coming in and telling private companies how to do business and that because they're private, they can do whatever they want. That's not quite true though. They were legally protected private companies. Now that the government isn't going to give blanket protections to bad actors doesn't mean they are extending their power.
They are allowing the companies to be legally subjected to existing law the way any newspaper is if they decide they want to no longer be a publisher. You can't eat your cake and keep it too.
His other tweet is even more ridiculous. He completely straw-man’s the entire position by acting like we want to completely revoke section 230. As far as I understand, that’s not what anyone with more than 2 brain cells wants to do. Instead, people want to reform the law and to enforce it in its current form. This is essentially what Trump is doing.
Instead, he acts like we all want comment sections to be filled with terrorism and child pornography.