{"id":101158,"date":"2020-06-18T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=101158"},"modified":"2020-06-17T15:41:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T19:41:19","slug":"rolling-back-big-techs-legal-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=101158","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Back Big Tech’s Legal Immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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People can’t win via an actual contest, they try to leverage the administrators to take action against the victor. (r\/The_Donald\/)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

President Trump and conservatives ponder a change in Big Tech’s legal status given their censoring of conservative content. Are they a social media platform or a publisher? The Department of Justice is going to roll out policy change proposals affecting Big Tech via Section 230.<\/p>\n

If they’re going to decide on what content is permissible, then some objectivity is in order. Posts related to online scams, criminal activity, and other undesirable activities should be aggressively dealt with. The editing or censuring of conservative posts may be harder to address though.<\/p>\n

From Breitbart:<\/span><\/p>\n

Section 230 gives Big Tech companies immunity from lawsuits arising from user-generated content. If a person is defamed on Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or other big tech platforms like Reddit, those platforms are not legally liable for the content like a traditional publisher might be. This allows social media platforms to host billions of posts from users without a potentially crippling legal risk.<\/p>\n

As Big Tech platforms have grown increasingly interested in censoring content posted by their users, however, many lawmakers have argued that they are behaving like traditional publishers, censoring and editing and approving their users’ posts.<\/span><\/strong> As such, a growing number of lawmakers have argued that the legal immunities of Section 230 should be contingent on platforms maintaining a hands-off approach to the speech of their users.<\/p>\n

Another problematic element of Section 230 is subsection c-2, which grants tech companies immunity from lawsuits arising from their censorship of “objectionable” content. This immunity gives them broad leeway to censor users, leaving no legal recourse for those who are censored — even if their social media accounts are critical to their livelihood or career.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Any policy changes, related to Section 230, would need congressional approval. Although both sides agree that Section 230 needs updating, they disagree on the specific problems that the Trump Administration wants to address. Democrats will naturally want to be resistant to policy proposals coming from the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n

Breitbart has more here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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