Re:DOJ unveils proposed Section 230 legislation
by hartator on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @03:01PM
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If the UPS was already opening the mail of everyone to add its own pamphlets when you discuss x or y, yes they should be responsible for facilitating crime that they know of then.
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Re:DOJ unveils proposed Section 230 legislation
by checker on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @03:12PM
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Interesting, so the implication is that web companies are generating advertising from user-submitted content, therefore it's been read by the company, so therefore any cross-user communication needs to be reviewed by a person or a sufficiently accurate AI for endorsement through publication.
So in your framework, transmission of user content + advertising based on that content = culpability. I wonder if social media companies would figure out a way to legally prove transmission of a message without viewing its contents as a way to avoid culpability and maintain some level of profitability.
Re:DOJ unveils proposed Section 230 legislation
by heavyset_go on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @05:19PM
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This is like suggesting that if you build a spam filter, you need to build a filter that scans content and catches and reports every type of crime possible to commit ever.