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by chimeracoder 2216 days ago
> Congress should revoke immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, for any online community the size of YouTube that imposes their own "code of conduct" independent of US law.

The EFF is one of the strongest champions of freedom of speech online, and they disagree with you. https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230

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Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, the key item on that page is a link "makes editorial judgments" to another page and is 404. Ha.
It's 404ing because the key cert for the page has expired.
That's awesome. :-)
Yes, and they could be right, but this is a very complicated issue, and the size of the platform matters a lot. In this case Section 230 effectively enables a monopoly on "mainstream" video content, where the monopolist in question has been given a blank check to control speech on their platform. That's a big problem too.
The EFF is a shill for Google and it's no surprise they disagree on this.