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> actively moderate content Was the intent for them to delete illegal content like child porn or bomb threats, or to boost one political viewpoint over another

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > Was the intent for them to delete illegal content like child porn or bomb threats, or to boost one political viewpoint over another? The latter, fairly explicitly. Or, more specifically, with the fairly explicit hope that platforms would overall enforce one particular dominant cultural viewpoint (which is not without political dimensions) beyond the scope of what government had the power to regulate, but that this necessarily meant delegating to private parties with potentially divergent views.of community standards was acknowledged and accepted as the cost of broader censorship than there was any argument (even as much as there was for the rest of the Communications Decency Act in which 230 was included, which was otherwise entirely struck down as a First Amendment violation) might be consistent with the Constitution.