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> Section 230 is not incentivising them to fact-check and moderate, as it was intended. I think you misunderstand the intent of section 230. The vision of the
by lliamander 4y ago
> Section 230 is not incentivising them to fact-check and moderate, as it was intended.
I think you misunderstand the intent of section 230. The vision of the bill was to support an internet of relatively free an unconstrained speech. No one expected these platforms to "fact-check" anything, and the moderation was not rule on who was right or wrong, but to mainly give them leeway to keep out genuinely illegal (and to a lesser extent, obscene) content.
- tzs 4y ago> The vision of the bill was to support an internet of relatively free an unconstrained speech. No one expected these platforms to "fact-check" anything, and the moderation was not rule on who was right or wrong, but to mainly give them leeway to keep out genuinely illegal (and to a lesser extent, obscene) content. How did you reach that conclusion?
- lliamander 4y agoReading the text of the law and the history of how and why it was drafted.
- zinekeller 4y agoYou replying that is as hilarious as that time NPR posted the constitution in Twitter - many, many people thought that NPR is either rebelling or being forced to (in a presumed coup).