Re:Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children an...
by Manuel_D on Sunday November 23, 2025 @04:44PM
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It's still unclear what choice Hacker News and other sites will have to make to retain section 230 protection in your proposed solution.
Again, something like counting the number of views in a video is, in your framing, not an active choice on the part of user. So simply counting views and and floating popular content to the top of a page sounds like it'd trigger loss section 230 protections.
Re:Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children an...
by slg on Sunday November 23, 2025 @04:54PM
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You're making me repeat myself multiple times now. I don't know what else I can say. HN would need to rank posts by a combination of upvotes and chronology. That is how they "float popular content to the top". You don't need passive metrics like views to do that.
Watching the content that is being served to you is a passive decision. It's totally different from clicking a button that says you want to see specific content in the future. You show me something that enrages me, I might watch it, but I'll never click a button saying "show me more stuff that enrages me". It's the platform taking advantage of human psychology and that is a huge part of what I want to stop.
>it remains unclear how you're constructing a set of criteria that does Hacker News, and plenty of other sites but not Meta.
I already said "This will still impact HN because of stuff like the flame war downranker...". I don't know this and your reply to my other comment seem to be implying that I think HN is perfect and untouchable. My proposal would force HN to make a choice on whether to change or lose 230 protections. I'm fine with that.