[shakna]

And none of that changes YouTube's liability - caused by misinformation and death.

A company can generally be relied upon to act to reduce their liability in most cases. That involves not pissing off their federal regulatory bodies.

Sweden was not caught up in the early suppression of misinformation. Things changed after a certain tacolike individual called Google's CEO into a private meeting. And expecting them to ignore that, is insane.

[whywhywhywhy]

>And none of that changes YouTube's liability - caused by misinformation and death.

Doesn’t section 230 protect them from the consequences of words users transmit through their platform.

[shakna]

Only if they "take reasonable steps" to "delete or prevent access" to that content. That is, they filter or suppress the information. Which is precisely the point of this thread. They did.