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Without 230, Businesses would use decentralised tech to process comments if they feel comments are integral part of their business model.
by shi314 6y ago
Without 230, Businesses would use decentralised tech to process comments if they feel comments are integral part of their business model.
- joshuamorton 6y agoThey would still be legally liable for that content, even if it were decentralized.
- dragonwriter 6y agoNo, without 230 businesses just wouldn't have business models where UGC without pre-publication editorial review was part of their business model because there would be no way to make such a business model viable in the face of liability. General liability law was evolving in ways which were starting to make that clear at the time the Communications Decency Act was being drafted, which is why Section 230, a protection that was seen as essential to prevent the imminent destruction of the participatory net, was included in the CDA as a major tool to get political support for supporting the state censorship that made up the rest of the CDA. (Perhaps ironically, Section 230 is the only operative part of the CDA not struck down as unconstitutional.)
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