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Lets flip the discussion and rather than asking when section 230 should apply, lets ask when publisher ever should be held liable for published content. Platfor
by belorn 4y ago
Lets flip the discussion and rather than asking when section 230 should apply, lets ask when publisher ever should be held liable for published content. Platforms don't need immunity to laws regulating publisher if those laws did not exist.
If publishing laws only required that publisher prevented copyright infringement and sex trafficking, both being a requirement of existing 230, then everything could continue as before and the immunity provided by 230 would be unnecessary. The question is who if any would be harmed.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoThis ignores things like libel, sedition, treason, classified information, business espionage, insider trading and probably several more.
- belorn 4y agoWhat prevents governments from using those laws to gain substantial control over what sorts of content that publisher publish? Those laws can and are occasionally used by politicians to stifle free speech.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoOf course they are. But that's what governments do, and no idea about a nice society is going to stop that and revert to just "copyright infringement and sex trafficking".