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Re:Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her co... by hackyhacky on Thursday July 14, 2022 @10:35AM (#32096581)
That's not at all a reasonable characterization of 230.

https://www.techdirt.com/2021/10/29/everything-you-know-abou...

Websites and TV stations have the same first amendment protection. The main difference is that users do not contribute content to TV stations. That's what 230 protects.

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Re:Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her co... by cronix on Thursday July 14, 2022 @10:50AM (#32096772)
There were "public access" shows on cable that showed user generated content. Not so different than the majority of tik-tok content today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G8reRPOoiw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFBIMKdOdBg

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Re:Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her co... by hackyhacky on Thursday July 14, 2022 @11:31AM (#32097342)
Actually, very different.

Public access was very limited in bandwidth: one simply didn't have thousands of people posting content. As a result, public access was heavily curated and subject to the same broadcast restrictions as traditional television.

Even allowing that, public access isn't much of a thing anymore. In modern mainstream television stations, there is absolutely no user-generated content.

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