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Hello You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230

Author: dredmorbius

Score: 9

Comments: 2

Date: 2020-11-03 22:45:23

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basicplus2 wrote at 2020-11-03 23:19:07:

<if you're in a real rush, just read Section (c)(1), which is only 26 words, and is the part that basically every single court decision (and there have been many) has relied on.>

(C) Protection for "Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material

(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.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

ocdtrekkie wrote at 2020-11-03 22:48:40:

Mike Masnick is on Google's Public Policy team payroll: He's more of a paid lobbyist for them than a journalist. People should _not_ use his extremely corporate-motivated positions as arguments.

https://kstatic.googleusercontent.com/files/4b9e2caa400b9cd5...

(see "Copia Institute", which is Mike Masnick/TechDirt)