Re:Social Media First Amendment Cases
by notaustinpowers on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @08:55AM
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I 100% agree with you that we should self-host more (and the surge in technologies like ActivityPub make me excited to think of what a future of self-hosted socials may bring). But that brings up another question:
If I self-host my own site and my estranged conspiracy theorist uncle posts something I don't agree with on my site and I remove it, will these laws make me liable for infringing on his freedom of speech? To my knowledge, there is no definition of what social media is or what companies/people/sites/technologies do these laws apply to.
If I self-host my own site and my estranged conspiracy theorist uncle posts something I don't agree with on my site and I remove it, will these laws make me liable for infringing on his freedom of speech? To my knowledge, there is no definition of what social media is or what companies/people/sites/technologies do these laws apply to.