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> Section 230 only removes the financial incentive to remote bad content. Please go read the actual law. It’s neither long nor complicated. Section 230 corre
by IAmEveryone 7y ago
> Section 230 only removes the financial incentive to remote bad content.
Please go read the actual law. It’s neither long nor complicated.
Section 230 corrected a problem in other law that made it dangerous to even attempt to moderate content. Before it became law, websites basically had to choose between not moderating at all, or assuming liability for all content.
Hell, I’ll just quote the relevant part in full:
(2) Civil liability
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
(A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected;