Sixty Minutes Episode Is Pure Misleading Moral Panic About Section 230

Re:Sixty Minutes Episode Is Pure Misleading Moral Panic Abou... by kevin_thibedeau on Monday January 04, 2021 @07:34PM (#25640377)

You pay the phone company for a service. They have certain obligations they need to uphold in exchange for payment.

New media isn't paid for by its consumers. Their computer, their rules. Nobody is wringing their hands over the decades of censorship by broadcast radio and television for "community standards".

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Re:Sixty Minutes Episode Is Pure Misleading Moral Panic Abou... by prepend on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:12PM (#25640663)

Regulations on phone companies isn’t based on whether I pay them. In my state, phone lines must dial 911 even if there’s no customer. That’s because of regulation. And I don’t pay them anything.

I don’t think the need for regulation depends much on how much I pay to use the service or whether the publisher is responsible for content.

Another example is that even publishers of free newspapers get sued for libel.

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