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It's a question of liability. Are the platforms liable for the speech of their users or are only the users liable? If the platforms are liable for the speech o
by compressedgas 6y ago
It's a question of liability. Are the platforms liable for the speech of their users or are only the users liable?
If the platforms are liable for the speech of their users, then they must filter. If they filter, they might be liable.
But if they do not filter, they might not be liable.
I think that common carrier status means that a platform isn't liable if it doesn't filter.
- ThrustVectoring 6y agoCurrent US law is extremely clear about the third-party liability that various internet companies have due to user speech. It's limited by Section 230 to knowingly infringing copyright and conduct by the platform that rises to the level of criminal activity (of particular importance is distribution of child pornography). If someone defames you on Twitter or uses it to send you death threats, you cannot successfully sue Twitter, their hosting provider, or their ISP. The only thing Section 230 has to say about filtering is that you aren't allowed to sue websites over their moderation decisions. The protection of liability for third-party speech is in no way dependent on whether or not the platform does filtering.