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No you're wrong. Section 230 determines a publisher from a platform based on what they host on their service. If they pick and choose what goes on their service
by _yoqn 5y ago
No you're wrong. Section 230 determines a publisher from a platform based on what they host on their service. If they pick and choose what goes on their service they are a publisher and lose their section 230 immunity. So it's not true that they can "do whatever they want."
And they do engage in censorship. See "Laptop from Hell" by Miranda Devine
- dnissley 5y agore: section 230, it appears you've been corrected by others here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667397 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667397 As far as whether or not these companies engage in censorship, I agree that they certainly do. It's just that it's not illegal/unconstitutional, as per the 'censorship narrative' alluded to.
- _yoqn 5y agoPlatform censorship is barely legal per my view of section 230 which I have studied thoroughly. It's also highly immoral for them to craft their own narrative out of user generated content which was never the intention of 230. The crafting of a narrative of available information and the presentation thereof is called opinion which is the province of publishers.
- dumbass99 5y ago