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This is going to make it easier to make the case that Facebook and Twitter are in violation of Section 230: by editing or removing posts of platform users they
by mikece 6y ago
This is going to make it easier to make the case that Facebook and Twitter are in violation of Section 230: by editing or removing posts of platform users they are making editorial decisions and are publishers and no longer eligible for Section 230 protections.
That said, it might be time to revisit the intention and spirit of Section 230 since in the time in which it was written (1996) the idea of a service like Facebook or Twitter and the media emissions of the Trump campaign had not entered into the imagination of lawmakers. And if a revision to Section 230 is made it needs to protect ALL online services, including scrappy startups and small blogs/social services as well as the multi-billion dollar heavies.