President Donald Trump: For purposes of national security, Section 230 must be immediately terminated!!!
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I don't think section 230 needs to be destroyed, but that it needs to be enforced. Sites like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit are clearly acting as publishers. This means they need to be open to the full legal consequences of any illegal content on their sites.
Section 230 is to vague, it needs to be appended or re-written.
I'm inclined to agree. There needs to be some kind of unambiguous rule for determining when a company no longer qualifies for protection. I can only assume such a rule does not exist, because the sites I named previously have been exceedingly blatant in their biased treatment of their users.
I simply disagree with the idea of destroying it completely. I'm willing to accept that destroying it and writing a new, better worded law with the same intent may be the only way. I'm simply not completely convinced that destroying it is necessary right now.
Seize their code and make it public. IP laws are fash.
It's somebody's property, I think you're barking up the wrong tree.
Knowledge is an infinite resource. The ideas in your head are no longer your property once they leave your mouth.
You said seize their code. That's property.
I'm okay with 230 being yeeted, but the application of the law is the opposite of how you would philosophically pass a law, and as such, requires massively re-writing other laws.
230 carves out legal protections to online publications for them not to be sued for edgy commentary appearing on their site. You should not have a carve out for legal protections at all. You shouldn't need those legal protections. Those 'legal protections' exist because the state justified heavy handed lawsuits against publishers of any kind if some commentary appeared, meaning that older media existed because smaller companies in previous eras wouldn't survive the lawsuits.
That is the problem. A publisher or a platform should not be able to be sued into collapse simply because someone gave their opinion. 230 shouldn't exist as an exception because the underlying laws allowing for massive lawsuits against platforms and publishers shouldn't exist. Removing those, removes the need for an exception to them.
Additionally, we should pull out all of our government subsidies, research grants, tax breaks, etc to these organizations anyway.
Now, can we do that? ... no. There's no political will, and little legal understanding.