Removing Big Tech’s immunity to lawsuits through Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

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[–]Nombre27 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Remind me what the differences in treatment are for platforms and publishers. IIRC, this is kind of like treating the internet like a carriage service, or something that is publicly held. Not a perfect comparison but that's my association of them.

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Publishers can be sued for what is on their site, platforms are treated as the public space. Richard is saying this will just be used for big tech to crackdown on things they don't like even more 'in order to avoid lawsuits' as a pretense (I assume, haven't watched the video)

[–]Nombre27 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Okay.

Platform - we're a private company and we'll do what we want.

Publisher - we'll remove what we were before and who knows what else.

It would seem that a platform would be better but they're obviously quite sensitive regarding what they do and don't allow, so they don't really seem to be behaving like a public space. Seems like which ever way they go, they'll really just end up censoring who they want regardless of what their status is.

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah pretty much, the publisher thing just gives them more of an excuse not that they need it.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"If something is legal in PUBLIC, then it should be legal on your PLATFORM".