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No, we're saying that currently the platforms enjoy unlimited immunity. Courts have departed from the most natural reading of the text by giving internet compa
by tesmar2 6y ago
No, we're saying that currently the platforms enjoy unlimited immunity.
Courts have departed from the most natural reading of the text by giving internet companies immunity for their own content. Section 230(c)(1) protects a company only when content is "provided by /another/ information content provider". Nowhere does this provision protect a company that is itself the information content provider.
And an information content provider is not just the primary author or creator, it is anyone "responsible, /in whole or in part/, for the creation of development" of the content. (words of justice Thomas)