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Re:Repealing Section 230 won’t do what anyone wants by roywiggins on Sunday March 14, 2021 @03:18PM (#26457997)
If you don't allow curation, that's the end of moderated forums like Hacker News, isn't it?
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Re:Repealing Section 230 won’t do what anyone wants by GavinMcG on Sunday March 14, 2021 @03:28PM (#26458105)
Who said anything about not allowing curation?

> make them responsible for promoting or curating the content, if they choose to do so

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Re:Repealing Section 230 won’t do what anyone wants by roywiggins on Sunday March 14, 2021 @04:04PM (#26458491)
So, Y Combinator can choose to be liable for anything defamatory that manages to get onto the front page (there is, after all, an algorithm), or anything defamatory that they fail to delete out of the comment section. It doesn't seem sustainable.
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