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Section 230 protects big tech by removing liability from what they publish, giving a competitive advantage to big tech over local newspaper and other media. Be
by vFunct 2y ago
Section 230 protects big tech by removing liability from what they publish, giving a competitive advantage to big tech over local newspaper and other media.
Because local newspapers are responsible for what they publish, they don’t get the viewership that unfiltered social media can get. This is why local news does, because of section 230.
- vineyardmike 2y agoLocal newspaper died at the hands of national newspapers because what's happening in your town is just not as interesting as what's happening across the whole country. Similarly, national newspapers died at the hands of the internet because they're just not as interesting as the whole globe. Because of this limit, they're not as profitable at selling and targeting ads. 230 also doesn't provide an endless liability protection over "traditional" media, but it is generally more forgiving. Personally, I don't know why we'd expect tweets to have the same relationship to twitter that a news story has to a newspaper. One is written by a user vs an employee.
- acdha 2y agoNewspapers didn’t rely on 230 much at all with centuries of precedent protecting them. What killed then was losing the ad revenue they used to get from local businesses, property sales, dating, etc. Even modest sized towns could afford good local coverage before that money was siphoned off to San Francisco.