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I think they're still opening themselves up to problems. Take these kinds of issues: https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2021/08/10/lawsuit-takes-aim-at-iowas-newe

• mindslight 5y ago
  > I really wish they had just come down hard on the side of free speech to the extent they could I think they did try, but ultimately any centralizing web service cannot succeed in this. For one, they need to follow government censorship laws (presumably what you mean by "extent they could"). But even deeper, their intrinsic profit motive destroys free speech through both negative distortions ("don't upset the sponsors") and positive ones ("drive engagement"). The effects of the latter are slower to take hold (eg online flash mobs rallying around centrally-promoted content). But once they do the company ends up stuck between a rock and a hard place - either hurt their core product by removing its centralizing features, or attempt to mitigate the ill effects through increasingly invasive policies.