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I’m not a lawyer, but this seems reasonable on their part. Section 230 protects against civil liability, but not criminal liability, in my understanding. I assu

• dragonwriter 6y ago
  > Section 230 protects against civil liability It provides them from liability as a publisher, which generally does not require notice of the content to be liable. Some courts have found (despite the fact that on its face 230 is explicitly limited to addressing liability as a publisher or speaker) that it also protects against civil liability as a distributor (which kicks in with actual notice of the illegal content), but there is some controversy over that.
• commandlinefan 6y ago
  If that's the case, then this is no longer a "private company doing whatever they like" and now a government-mandated free speech issue - although Twitter and Facebook have been carefully walking a tightrope to avoid admitting to that.