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> is that social media is not unbiased That's how I read it, too. Section 230 doesn't say you can't get in trouble for failure to moderate, it says that you c
by commandlinefan 2y ago
> is that social media is not unbiased
That's how I read it, too. Section 230 doesn't say you can't get in trouble for failure to moderate, it says that you can't get in trouble for moderating one thing but not something else (in other words, the government can't say, "if you moderated this, you could have moderated that"). They seem to be going back on that now.
Real freedom from censorship - you cannot be held liable for content you hosted - has never been tried. The US government got away with a lot of COVID-era soft censorship by just strong-arming social media sites into suppressing content because there were no first-amendment style protections against that sort of soft censorship. I'd love to see that, but there's no reason to think that our government is going in that direction.