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It seems like many people have a misunderstanding of section 230, or that it has anything at all to do with "neutrality" or "common carriers". The text of the m
by jmole 2y ago
It seems like many people have a misunderstanding of section 230, or that it has anything at all to do with "neutrality" or "common carriers". The text of the most relevant section, (c)Protection for “Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material, is below, and the full text is available here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
(1)Treatment of publisher or speaker:
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
(2)Civil liability :
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
(A)any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or
(B)any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).[1]
If you squint at paragraph B, this is actually a reasonable loophole for adblocking, if you consider behavioral advertising to be objectionable.