Re Section 230: A Key Legal Shield For Facebook, Google Is About To Change

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: John Gilmore <gnu () toad com>
Date: Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 3:25 AM
Subject: Re: [IP] Re Section 230: A Key Legal Shield For Facebook, Google
Is About To Change
To: <farber () gmail com>
CC: ip <ip () listbox com>


> > > 1/            The useful public purpose of Section 230 immunity is for
online services to be safe permitting unrestricted user comments.
> > > 2/            That public purpose is not particularly well-served by pe=
rmitting online services to monetize those comments (other than by making t=
hem available),
> > > 3/            That public purpose is also not well-served by permitting=
 online services to escape liability for content they actively promote to u=
sers, even if the online services did not create that content.
> > > 4/            Similarly, it is not well-served by permitting online ser=
vices to escape liability for the content of advertisements or other conten=
t for which the online service is paid.

It is firmly established in First Amendment law that making money from
your publishing is no excuse for censorship.  The criteria you
proposed don't pass the laugh test; almost nobody would want to live
in the society that it would produce.  Every newspaper, magazine, TV
station and every bookseller makes money from what it publishes, and
some of that is written or recorded by outsiders.  And, each of them
promote what they publish, and many of them publish ads.  And each of
them has a RIGHT to publish these things, without being sued out of
existence by people who disagree with what they published.

        John



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