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A comment on You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 of the CDA. Parent comment

Re:You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Sect... by edoceo on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:13PM (#25702155)
Seems reasonable, just costs a lot of money. The cost of harassment should out-weigh the cost of protection here tho.

A) post video to YouTube for $0

b) contact lawyer to subpoena YT and then sue a jerk? $50,000

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Re:You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Sect... by lostcolony on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:21PM (#25703616)
Which the removal or not of Section 230 doesn't change. No matter what the law says, no matter what culpability exists, if you can't afford a lawyer, you're not getting anything. An issue with the law in the US, but hardly relevant to the issue at hand.
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Re:You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Sect... by leereeves on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:36AM (#25711972)
But YouTube has deep pockets, so if you could sue YouTube, lawyers would work on contingency. What lawyer would take a John Doe case on contingency?

Worse, what if the defamer is able to hide their identity or from a jursdiction that doesn't care about an order from US courts? In that case, even paying for a lawyer won't help.

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