Re:I Shouldn’t Have to Publish This in The New York Times
by jnotwell on Monday June 24, 2019 @02:53PM
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While they covered copyrighted material, the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) [1] were essential for any user-created content to be hosted by third parties on the web.
I wonder if speech could be treated similarly, with a distinction made between passive hosting and promotion:
"Tech companies should not be liable for the content that users upload to their platforms, but they should be liable when their algorithms choose to show it." [2]
I wonder if speech could be treated similarly, with a distinction made between passive hosting and promotion:
"Tech companies should not be liable for the content that users upload to their platforms, but they should be liable when their algorithms choose to show it." [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_... [2] https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/955594859154259968