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That sounds like a smokescreen for "section 230 let's people say things about me that I don't like and we need to find a way to repeal it."
by tedunangst 7y ago
That sounds like a smokescreen for "section 230 let's people say things about me that I don't like and we need to find a way to repeal it."
- cameronbrown 7y agoIt could be either. Conflicts of interest here are huge.
- nothrabannosir 7y agoAs with a short seller lambasting a company, personal incentives can align with the public good. Can.
- dragonwriter 7y agoFor a Senator (or any other public figure), the Constitution and First Amendment case law do that (and in a superset of the circumstances to which Section 230 applies) so much that Section 230 has negligible impact, and Warner isn't (unlike, say, Donald Trump) particularly litigious on the kinds of things people say about him whether or not 230 is applicable such that there would be a reason to think he'd be seeking every minute fraction of a legal advantage on that kind of issue.