| > Do you think that being banned from Facebook does not also restrict an individual’s ability to associate and speak freely, in 2020? It does not affect their civil liberties, no. > One of those is clearly not like the others, and perhaps the law should favor “yours and mine”. Section 230 does. And repealing it would harm them. > The right to speech does not mean that you are also immune from libel laws. Correct. And if we were discussing writing section 230, that would be valid. But we aren't. We're discussing changing established law. And if the reason to change the law is to restrict civil liberties that at protected by the first amendment, you encounter a constitutional problem. Much as some laws are unconstitutional to enforce, I simply argue that some are unconstitutional to ignore. If you want to imagine the negative impacts of such a change, a forum on baking could no longer remove content that was not related to baking without being liable for content posted by users. As far as I know, the owner of a physical bulletin board isn't responsible if I post a libelous poster on it. Why should a virtual bulletin board be any different? |