[bsder]

> They had the technology to create a monster, but don’t have the technology to stop it.

They don't have the incentive to stop it.

All you have to do is make posting have an actual price, no matter how nominal, and most of this goes away.

Unfortunately for their profits, it will wipe out 90+% of their user base. And it will kill virality cold (you won't forward something to your whole address book if it costs you a dollar).

[ocdtrekkie]

The other incentive option is to charge the platform for the violation. Aka, remove Section 230. If the platform was to be charged for posting dangerous content, the platform would magically be able to largely prevent it overnight.

[qball]

>Aka, remove Section 230. If the platform was to be charged for posting dangerous content, the platform would magically be able to largely prevent it overnight.

That's not actually what Section 230 does. It prevents the platform from being charged if while moderating it makes a mistake.

Removing Section 230 would do more harm than good if you consider censorship good- because then the only option to escape legal liability would be to allow everything. Remember that Section 230 was part of the Communications Decency Act and was designed to ensure that websites could remove pornographic and objectionable content without being responsible (of course, it's also the only part of that law that was found constitutional, and for good reason).

By taking the only legal immunity for half-baked censorship away (i.e. private company gets to moderate what's posted but won't suffer consequences for getting it wrong) you've closed the door even harder on it- US law won't actually let you censor consequence-free otherwise, which is the whole reason S.230 was added in the first place.

[wbl]

Charge them with what? In the US there is nothing illegal about being a Nazi. There is nothing illegal in selling Mein Kampf etc.

[gcb0]

please don't compare selling a book with being a nazi.

[chris_wot]

Nor compare reading a particular book makes one a Nazi.

[gcb0]

hum.. that's exactly the point of not comparing both things.

Reading a book, as bad as it is, start a well informed debate, that might improve the world. You can't critique or remedy something you doesn't know exists.

While hating a particular group of people (because you read the book, or didn't pay attention in life, or any other reason) does not improve anything.