Technically you all need to remember the section 230 gives immunity to the press, they can pick any side they want they can help any side win any election, pretty much they can secretly commit treason without being punished. Which is why its called "fake news" because its a one sided organisation, that is controlled from the top by people with a big agenda to overthrow united states.
As long as 230 exists they feel safe about what they say. Trust me, as soon as 230 gets nuked, and if trump gets 4 more years, the media will INSTANTLY change their narrative saying how good trump is.
230 has nothing to do with the news media. They are already protected under the first amendment. Media can have whatever viewpoint and publish whatever garbage they want and, so long as it isn't libel or slander, they are entirely within their rights to do so. Those laws could stand to be strengthened, but it's really something that needs to be worked out in the marketplace.
230 is specific to the internet. It protects websites from liabilities associated with their users' speech, which serves an important purpose but it's being abused by big tech. The issue is that they claim to be platforms when it suits their purposes (for liability protection) and publishers when it suits their purposes in others (censoring). It's 25 year old law that predates social networking and just needs to be updated, really.
But, no, fake news doesn't go away with 230 should it be repealed.
A strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means. - Thomas Jefferson
Never read that quote, thank you. It brings to mind the argument that Twitter is "just a private company, I thought you guys supported free markets?" To piggyback Franklin here, yes the free market is important, but to allow giant corporations to undermine our entire society in the name of the free market is an absurd sacrifice of the ends to the means.
Technically you all need to remember the section 230 gives immunity to the press, they can pick any side they want they can help any side win any election, pretty much they can secretly commit treason without being punished. Which is why its called "fake news" because its a one sided organisation, that is controlled from the top by people with a big agenda to overthrow united states.
As long as 230 exists they feel safe about what they say. Trust me, as soon as 230 gets nuked, and if trump gets 4 more years, the media will INSTANTLY change their narrative saying how good trump is.
Just watch.
230 has nothing to do with the news media. They are already protected under the first amendment. Media can have whatever viewpoint and publish whatever garbage they want and, so long as it isn't libel or slander, they are entirely within their rights to do so. Those laws could stand to be strengthened, but it's really something that needs to be worked out in the marketplace.
230 is specific to the internet. It protects websites from liabilities associated with their users' speech, which serves an important purpose but it's being abused by big tech. The issue is that they claim to be platforms when it suits their purposes (for liability protection) and publishers when it suits their purposes in others (censoring). It's 25 year old law that predates social networking and just needs to be updated, really.
But, no, fake news doesn't go away with 230 should it be repealed.
A strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means. - Thomas Jefferson
Never read that quote, thank you. It brings to mind the argument that Twitter is "just a private company, I thought you guys supported free markets?" To piggyback Franklin here, yes the free market is important, but to allow giant corporations to undermine our entire society in the name of the free market is an absurd sacrifice of the ends to the means.
They just won't say anything. They will sow division in other ways and other stories.
Their legal fees will rise significantly with lawyers trying to figure out how they can talk shit about America without repercussions.