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TikTok, like any other product with user driven content is using Section 230 to disavow responsibility for the content on their app. If it's not TikTok's speec
by cheriot 3y ago
TikTok, like any other product with user driven content is using Section 230 to disavow responsibility for the content on their app.
If it's not TikTok's speech how can they claim the first amendment? The users speaking can just as easily use a different app, website, newspaper, whatever.
- pessimizer 3y ago> The users speaking can just as easily use a different app, website, newspaper, whatever. This is something you have to argue, not something that you can just declare. And the "just as easily" is where you're going to run into a problem.
- cheriot 3y agoI mean, short form video is available on YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook and those are just the ones I know about. How is having one less option impacting someone's ability to speak? "People use a product to speak therefor the product cannot be regulated" is not a claim I'd heard before the TikTok debate. Seems to contradict previous interpretations of the first amendment that allowed the regulation of cable, TV broadcast, and radio.