Re:Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings
by Zak on Sunday October 18, 2020 @06:26PM
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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
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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.