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Would that not depend upon how the website works? I'm fairly certain that any two people going to the same page at the same time on HN will see the same thing.
by II2II 3y ago
Would that not depend upon how the website works?
I'm fairly certain that any two people going to the same page at the same time on HN will see the same thing. What they see will mostly be determined by the age of a post/article along with up/down votes by end users. It would be difficult to argue that much is going on here beyond speech.
Yet a site like YouTube is different. It will display different content to different people based upon their history (and, likely, other factors). You don't even have to be logged into YouTube for this to happen. It is a lot more difficult to argue that this is a form of speech since the recommendations are most likely the product of some optimization algorithm. It certainly isn't the product of the direct input of other people.
- Natsu 3y ago> Would that not depend upon how the website works? They're suing, among others, 4chan which is the same as HN in that regard and the judge let the lawsuit go forward. So whatever might later be litigated, we can see from this that the plaintiffs currently have a "defective product" theory that HN would also fit if only there were some murderer willing to claim that they were somehow radicalized by HN.
- SAI_Peregrinus 3y agoThe defendants (4chan and the others) are independent. It's possible 4chan will be found not to be liable (no editorial control exercised in such a way as to create new speech) and the others liable.
- Natsu 3y agoCertainly, but if they had a theory where sites like 4chan (and HN) were excluded, they wouldn't have sued them in the first place.