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And that’s my point. I wonder how they could be covered by section 230. If a human read through a bunch of sources online and decided to answer a query with the
by ViViDboarder 5y ago
And that’s my point. I wonder how they could be covered by section 230. If a human read through a bunch of sources online and decided to answer a query with the wrong persons photo, they’d be liable. Google search is not a platform that users post content to. They crawl content and then decide what to share with users in response to queries.
- akolbe 5y agoI think their defense is that it is all automated – an algorithm decides what to show. And none of the things shown were originally posted by Google. Google is "just the platform", which Section 230 exempts from liability. Otherwise Google would be legally responsible for every defamatory post included in its search results. It may be different when Google has been notified that there is a problem with its Knowledge Graph panel. As described in this article, they do fix those: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-knowledge-panel-shows-wrong-man-as-serial-killer/411676/ https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-knowledge-panel-s... Beats me why they haven't done so in this case.