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by adinisom 128 days ago
In Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy, Prodigy ran a message board and would have escaped liability for defamation by a third-party save one problem: they exercised editorial control by moderating content.

Hacker News faces the same risk.

Respectfully I prefer a world where Hacker News exists.

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I'm well aware of the canon of using a single mishandled case from 1995 to justify allowing endless abuse of every part of society by tech companies.

If HN is worth all of the murdered immigrants to you, that's your value system to live with. shrug