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by protocolture
26 days ago
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> Platforms should bear some responsibility for the content they distribute. My read of section 230 is that they do, and part of that responsibility is remediating bad content as soon as possible? Whether that is currently being done to the fullest extent is debatable, but I dont see how getting sued into the ground for hosting user content at all even if they remediate it is better? |
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No. Section 230 protects websites from the liability that they might otherwise bear upon removing objectionable content. You may ask, why would removing objectionable content give someone liability? Because for legal "simplicity" some people want to treat the act of removing harmful content as legal knowledge that the harmful content existed, and if the website was "too slow" to remove harmful content then surely the website should bear responsibility for the harm caused by being "too slow" or possibly complicit.