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True and they have responsibilities because of it that Twitter does not due to current interpretation of Section 230. See the Covington decision where a paper l
by mesozoic 6y ago
True and they have responsibilities because of it that Twitter does not due to current interpretation of Section 230. See the Covington decision where a paper lost to the tune of many millions of dollars.
- shadowgovt 6y agoDo you have a year / parties citation? Having a hard time narrowing down "Covington decision" past the noise of a hard-to-judge MMA fight and North Carolina gerrymandering something.
- mesozoic 6y agoWas the "Covington Kid" suing the news outlets. I suppose it was a settlement and not decision. https://nypost.com/2020/07/24/washington-post-settles-250m-suit-with-covington-teen-nick-sandmann/ https://nypost.com/2020/07/24/washington-post-settles-250m-s...
- shadowgovt 6y agoThank you for the clarification. It's interesting to observe that he claims to be targeting Twitter with a defamation suit. I believe S230 would block that. Under Twitter's behavior prior to about this year, they would have let unfiltered defamatory tweets go through without any fact-checking. Fact-checking may actually have saved this young man some malignedly-lost reputation had it existed at the time.