Section 230 Is all about Legal Propaganda and you need to know about it.

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[–]slushpilot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The world clearly needs something more than this single American law to rule over all of us. Whatever section 230 actually says, it's clearly insufficient.

Something like an international GDPR for free speech on the internet... A Magna Carta for this new age.

[–]Questionable 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Section 230's most important sentence reads as follows:

No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

Critics have come up with creative ways of distorting what the law says. Here are four myths to watch out for:

Myth 1: Tech Companies Must Be Neutral

Strawman, gaslighting? What should we call this?

Because what critics are actually saying is that a platform must not act as a publisher. Which aligns with the highlighted text. And is also where they get their protections from liabilities.

Myth 2: if you say things, and say they are my opinion, and the opinion of your opponents we all must agree this is a fact.