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> It's undoubtable that one side of the political spectrum would use it to remove opposition and opposing opinions. Ideologues at several big tech firms have a
by pclmulqdq 2y ago
> It's undoubtable that one side of the political spectrum would use it to remove opposition and opposing opinions.
Ideologues at several big tech firms have already used Section 230 as their liability shield for some very biased moderation of content in 2016 and 2020, including removing lots of content from their opposition.
- vineyardmike 2y agoThe removal of 230 would basically require aggressive censorship of content via moderation, not enable "Free speech". If you're unhappy with the level of moderation you've witnessed, removing 230 would not prevent "Ideologues" across the political spectrum from "very biased moderation". It would guarantee the most litigious or powerful ideologues wins.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoOh, I agree with you. Removing 230 would practically mean either turning your forum into 4chan or becoming a newspaper. Section 230 just enables the exact behavior that OP was complaining about.
- t-writescode 2y agoWorse. It would mean any forum owner could get *felony* charges for things. Imagine a world where Pastebin, Meetup.com, or “you” and your tiny phpbb got drug trafficking facilitation charges because people used it to trade drugs and you didn’t know.