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Re:Up next: the lawsuit threatening your YouTube watch queue by flyingv on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:14PM (#35782863)
Section 230 was written in 1996, and in using phrases like "interactive computer service" and "access software provider" is absolutely ambiguous in its application to a 2023 internet. If it were clear, this case wouldn't have made its way up to SCOTUS.
Re:Up next: the lawsuit threatening your YouTube watch queue by SllX on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:13AM (#35783288)
It also defines its terms right there within the statute, in 230(f): https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

Actually to save everyone a click, let’s bring it here:

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(f) Definitions

As used in this section:

(1) Internet The term “Internet” means the international computer network of both Federal and non-Federal interoperable packet switched data networks.

(2) Interactive computer service The term “interactive computer service” means any information service, system, or access software provider that provides or enables computer access by multiple users to a computer server, including specifically a service or system that provides access to the Internet and such systems operated or services offered by libraries or educational institutions.

(3) Information content provider The term “information content provider” means any person or entity that is responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development of information provided through the Internet or any other interactive computer service.

(4) Access software provider The term “access software provider” means a provider of software (including client or server software), or enabling tools that do any one or more of the following:

-> (A) filter, screen, allow, or disallow content;

-> (B) pick, choose, analyze, or digest content; or

-> (C) transmit, receive, display, forward, cache, search, subset, organize, reorganize, or translate content.