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Re:Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children an... by Manuel_D on Sunday November 23, 2025 @04:44PM (#46027624)
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.

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Re:Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children an... by slg on Sunday November 23, 2025 @04:54PM (#46027720)
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.
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