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Section 230 is being abused by criminal companies who want to have their cake and eat it too. They act as a publisher and algorithmically tailor content to eac
by Nextgrid 3y ago
Section 230 is being abused by criminal companies who want to have their cake and eat it too.
They act as a publisher and algorithmically tailor content to each individual user to increase engagement and still enjoy the protection of S230. Generally this results in noxious, harmful and/or illegal content being pushed to the top (as outrage or indignation yields way more engagement).
This is far from what S230 was originally meant to protect - content-agnostic communication mediums where the provider is simply facilitating the exchange of user-generated-content without exerting editorial control outside of edge-cases such as spam filtering/moderation.