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I guess most people that think section 230 is excessive are not advocating for its complete removal, but more like for adding some requirements that platforms h

• Manuel_D 2y ago
  Sure, but I find that few people are able to articulate in any detail what those requirements are and explain how it will lead to a better ecosystem. A lot of people talk about a requirement to explain why someone was given a particular recommendation. Okay, so Google, Facebook, et. al. provide a mechanism that supplies you with a CSV of tens of thousands of entries describing the weights used to give you a particular recommendation. What problem does that solve? Conservatives often want to amend section 230 to limit companies' ability to down-weight and remove conservative content. This directly runs afoul the First Amendment; the government can't use the threat of liability to coerce companies into hosting speech they don't want to. Not to mention, the companies could just attribute the removal or down-ranking to other factors like inflammatory speech or negative user engagement.