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It’s funny — I found this link a few days ago and now it seems like it applies here. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello-youve-been-re
by vlmutolo 6y ago
It’s funny — I found this link a few days ago and now it seems like it applies here.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
It’s a summary of how section 230 works and is worded. The tone of the piece is overly hash and critical of its readers (prompting me unnecessarily to write this paragraph), but it raises some good points, and I was surprised by more than one of the clarifications it made.
Basically, as it applies here, I don’t think Twitter moderating its content to remove SciHub goes against Section 230. My understanding is that it’s specifically covered by 230.
- adolph 6y agoI'm not saying the article is totally wrong, but at least one of the studies they linked to is Internet industry funded (NetChoice: "Described by Politico as tech's most aggressive lobbying presence in Washington D.C."), and authored by one "Michael Masnick" which is the same name as the author of the Techdirt article and also the name of Techdirt's founder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techdirt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techdirt So, until something is litigated to the point of SCOTUS precedent, I think most things are at the level of "that's just like, your opinion, man."