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by amadeuspagel 1313 days ago
> People doing their actual best to operate a site aren't going to be arbitrarily lined up and shot, judges and juries will side with them and establish clear precedent.

That's not what happened before Section 230[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton_Oakmont,_Inc._v._Prod....

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Yeah, there's one poor piece of case law from 1995, well before the modern Internet.

I understand people's fear of actually having to defend behavior on merits, but the literal death toll of Section 230 is a cost too high to avoid a couple court cases that will inevitably side with people doing the right thing.