Re:Judges Rule Big Tech's Free Ride on Section 230 Is Over
by jay_kyburz on Thursday August 29, 2024 @04:39PM
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I agree.
I think if social media companies relayed communication between it's users with no moderation at all, then they should be entitled to carrier protections.
As soon as they start making any moderation decisions, they are implicitly endorsing all other content, and should therefore be held responsible for it.
There are two things social media can do. Firstly, they should accurately identify its users before allowing them to post, so they can counter sue that person if post harms them, and secondly, they can moderate every post.
Everybody says this will kill social media as we know it, but I say the world will be a better place as a result.
In the newspaper case, you write your post, send it to the newspaper, and some editor at the newspaper decides whether or not to publish it.
In Social Media, the same thing happens, but it's just super fast and algorithmic: You write your post, send it to the Social Media site (or forum), an algorithm (or moderator) at the Social Media site decides whether or not to publish it.
I feel like it's reasonable to interpret this kind of editorial selection as "promotion" and "recommendation" of that comment, particularly if the social media company's algorithm deliberately places that content into someone's feed.