A whole lot of provisions in section 230 have never been ruled by the courts. So when people say Section 230 allows you to do this or not do that, they are most probably just guessing.
While section 230 needs to be overhauls, what Twitter, Facebook etc do go far beyond the scope of that section and need to be addressed in whatever way.
First, the Big Tech has an information monopoly. Whistleblowers have talked about how they use centralised system to ban users or remove content based on keywords, topics etc across other social media platforms and even with traditional media as well. Monopoly of information needs to be an alarming idea regardless of what ideology you believe in.
Secondly, Twitter has been shown to collude with local governments to launder government censorship. Shiva Ayyadurai had a complete expose on this thats worth watching. Here we are entering even more scary authoritarian situation where government is censoring via private proxies. Remember Soviet union and Pravda? Yeah, essentially Twitter is becoming government proaganda machine. Goebbels will be drooling with envy if he saw whats going on today.
Thirdly, and least of all, Big Tech built their market dominance promoting free speech so turning around and using that dominance to alter election outcomes or warp public perception is highly fascist and needs to be addressed via legislation if not already covered.
A whole lot of provisions in section 230 have never been ruled by the courts. So when people say Section 230 allows you to do this or not do that, they are most probably just guessing.
While section 230 needs to be overhauls, what Twitter, Facebook etc do go far beyond the scope of that section and need to be addressed in whatever way.
First, the Big Tech has an information monopoly. Whistleblowers have talked about how they use centralised system to ban users or remove content based on keywords, topics etc across other social media platforms and even with traditional media as well. Monopoly of information needs to be an alarming idea regardless of what ideology you believe in.
Secondly, Twitter has been shown to collude with local governments to launder government censorship. Shiva Ayyadurai had a complete expose on this thats worth watching. Here we are entering even more scary authoritarian situation where government is censoring via private proxies. Remember Soviet union and Pravda? Yeah, essentially Twitter is becoming government proaganda machine. Goebbels will be drooling with envy if he saw whats going on today.
Thirdly, and least of all, Big Tech built their market dominance promoting free speech so turning around and using that dominance to alter election outcomes or warp public perception is highly fascist and needs to be addressed via legislation if not already covered.