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Re:Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings by michaelmrose on Sunday October 18, 2020 @05:29PM (#24821260)
Arguing that the recommendation algorithm is editorializing is an argument for the choice of algorithm being an instance of free speech which would be protected from such meddling.

I don't think current law and understanding of same allows any major changes to how we treat platforms. I tend to think that any major changes in the law are liable to be for the worse because even well meaning law makers seem to possess a mostly incompetent perspective on tech.

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Re:Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings by Zak on Sunday October 18, 2020 @06:26PM (#24821620)
The algorithm would have free speech protections under such a scheme, and it's likely courts in the US would conclude that it does under current law. Those do not necessarily extend to repeating lies that I have published about you, which are not protected as free speech.
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Re:Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings by michaelmrose on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @01:10PM (#24839869)
The company has a free speech interest in choosing the algorithm to make it clear. Lies might be protected speech but 230 makes it very clear whom you are allowed to sue regarding those lies. Wishing the law was different doesn't change the law.
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