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FB currently benefits from a law sheilding them from liability for what they host and show on their service. This shield comes with the classification of being
by idle_zealot 2y ago
FB currently benefits from a law sheilding them from liability for what they host and show on their service. This shield comes with the classification of being a facilitator of communication and sharing of content for your users, which carries certain obligations. Among those is that users be able to filter what they can see, selectively, while using the service. Basically, (b) is true, though in a limited capacity.
- _heimdall 2y agoThe Communications Decency Act could pretty easily be removed or revised to exclude protections once companies modify or decide how user provided content is shared. In my opinion, the 25 year old law was never reasonably meant to protect algorithmic content curation but was meant for things like blogs and forums. It seems much more reasonable to clarify that rather than assume social media is a public utility.