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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 10:42:02 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Addendum 9
Section 230: Can We Talk About It?
https://cepr.net/section-230-can-we-talk-about-it/
2023-09-09 Dean Baker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Baker
* Musk’s erratic behavior, fondness for far-right propagandists chased people f. Twitter/X
* still has reach dwarfing even largest traditional media outlets
Section 230: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230
* immunity for online computer services wrt 3rd-party content generated by its users
#section230 #Musk #twitter #DefundCorporations #NewsMedia #disinformation #CultureWars #FreeSpeech
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  Section 230: Can We Talk About It?
  
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  There is considerable handwringing over the fact that Elon Musk now controls Twitter and is making ad hoc decisions, based on his unusual political views, as to what posts get amplified and what gets banned. (I was briefly banned last fall, for no obvious reason.) While many people may not like Musk’s calls on these […]
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  Section 230
  
  In the United States, Section 230 is a section of the Communications Act of 1934 that was enacted as part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which is Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and generally provides immunity for online computer services with respect to third-party content generated by its users. At its core, Section 230(c)(1) provides immunity from liability for providers and users of an "interactive computer service" who publish information provided by third-party users: 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. Section 230(c)(2) further provides "Good Samaritan" protection from civil liability for operators of interactive computer services in the good faith removal or moderation of third-party material they deem "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected." Section 230 was developed in response to a pair of lawsuits against online discussion...

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