Subj : Re: Social Media
To   : The Wanderer
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Apr 12 2026 10:30 am

-=> The Wanderer wrote to boraxman <=-

 TW> No... free speech at all costs is not healthy, and X isn't even that.
 TW> It's free speech if Elon agrees with you (mostly), but X is now really
 TW> quite well known as being a toxic shithole.

I'm amazed that section 230 of the USA Communications Decency act has
held up - that was a section of the code that held "online services"
protected from lawsuits.

It used to be that online services claimed their role as an information
distributor, not a publisher. in Cubby vs. CompuServe, CompuServe
claimed that they published content and didn't moderate, as they
couldn't moderate every piece of information on their service.
Additionally, since they only displayed what was posted, their role was
an intermediary.

Flash forward to present day, where Facebook and X manipulate feeds to
show specific content to users, and the old 230 defense falls apart.

I suppose they're "too big to sue" now, or if 230 was breached, it'd
just be a cost of business for a billion-dollar service.



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