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Re:Next Week, the Supreme Court Could Destroy Everything Goo... by lost_tourist on Saturday February 18, 2023 @02:03AM (#34844689)
That's a bad take, they provide a service and a platform, that's allowed to make a profit. The big deal about 230 getting repealed is that it's a lawyer's wet dream to sue everyone and -win- over any little thing said on the internet. Repealing it basically eliminates free speech on the internet unless you put up your own host, and even then your ISP could get sued for allowing even that. It's yet another way the elite can suppress the voice of the commons on the internet. I can't believe anyone on hackernews would support that.
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Re:Next Week, the Supreme Court Could Destroy Everything Goo... by singron on Saturday February 18, 2023 @03:06AM (#34844997)
230 in it's entirety isn't really in danger here. Your ISP is almost definitely still protected regardless of this case. It seems that content recommendation algorithms are the focus and it might stretch to some kinds of search ranking. IMO the internet would be fine without recommendations on YouTube, but I would be afraid to lose things like reddit/stack overflow/hackernews/google that have a kind of content ranking.
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