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Re:X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced by epistasis on Monday January 05, 2026 @04:07PM (#46504977)
At this point in time, no comment that has the string "230" in it is saying that Section 230 absolves X of anything. Lot's of people are asking if it might, and if that's what X is relying on here.

I brought up Section 230 because it used to be that removal of Section 230 was an active discussion in the US, particularly for Twitter, pre-Elon, but seems to have fallen away.

With content generated by the platform, it certainly seems reasonable to understand how Section 230 applies, if it all, and I in particular think that Section 230 protections should probably be removed for X in particular.

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Re:X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced by biophysboy on Monday January 05, 2026 @04:21PM (#46505146)
> At this point in time, no comment that has the string "230" in it is saying that Section 230 absolves X of anything.

You are correct; I read your earlier post as "did we forget our already established principle"? I admit I'm a bit tilted by X doing this. In my defense, there are people making the "blame the user, not the tool" argument here though, which is the core idea of section 230

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