Joe Mullin has an opinion on the Electronic Frontier
Foundation site warning that the California League of Cities has proposed another
dangerous weakening of Section 230.
The League wants “websites” (presumably social media
companies) to be held responsible for any postings that plot or recruit to
commit crimes, and wants them to have to monitor for that activity. The policy might be motivated by the violent protests and recruitment online that supposedly sets them up.
Well, they pretty much do already, and Facebook in
particular has very detailed policies on harmful content.
I would be more concerned if measures affected web
hosts.
Theoretically, I would be required to monitor comments
for criminal activity. As a practical matter, the volume is not huge (except
for one comment spam day when I was supposed to fly, on Blogger; I has Askimet
in the Wordpress blogs).
Conservatives still “complain” that Section 230 allow
tech companies to “censor” them, like Stephen Crowder.
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