[jeffdavis]

I don't think the big tech companies should get blanket common carrier protections because they aren't common carriers. They have knowledge and control over content, and therefore should be responsible for it to some degree.

But that doesn't mean they should have no protections or that thry should be treated like a book publisher. There can be some reasonable processes amd limits of liability in place.

[yibg]

That all sounds nice but what does it mean? What knowledge do they have that common carriers don’t? Responsible for what to what degree? What is a reasonable process and what does that look like?

These kinds of generalities and hand waving doesn’t really get us very far.

[eyeinthepyramid]

Are you suggesting that there should be a size requirement before a site has to pre-moderate their UGC? What metric would you use? Revenue? Taxable Income? Impressions? Volume of UGC? # of employees?

If there's a blanket repeal of liability protection for UGC, it's going to have a much larger impact on smaller forums.

[jeffdavis]

No, I'm not suggesting company size should have anything to do with it.