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There is no such thing as nullifying 230 protection. It doesnt have a clause on how you "lose protection." The law says "any action voluntarily taken in good
by basch 5y ago
There is no such thing as nullifying 230 protection. It doesnt have a clause on how you "lose protection."
The law says "any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable."
Otherwise objectionable is a pretty broad brush to take down anything you want, THAT YOU DONT LIKE. And thats the point. If you build a platform you can host whatever you want, and if you take down things you dont like, that doesnt make you the speaker of what remains. What would a "bad faith" removal of non-objectionable content even look like? Removing it just to annoy the person, basically "don't pick on people for fun?"
Imagine if youtube took down spam, and in doing so became the speaker of every other video it hosted.