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To: semimojo

Congress responded by enacting Section 230, establishing that platforms could not be held liable as publishers of user-generated content and clarifying that they could not be held liable for removing any content that they believed in good faith to be “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable.” This provision does not allow platforms to remove whatever they wish, however. Courts have held that “otherwise objectionable” does not mean whatever a social media company objects to, but “must, at a minimum, involve or be similar” to obscenity, violence, or harassment. Political viewpoints, no matter how extreme or unpopular, do not fall under this category.


497 posted on 05/28/2020 7:29:37 AM PDT by EBH (May God Save Our Freedom from our enemies within)
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To: EBH
This provision does not allow platforms to remove whatever they wish, however. Courts have held that “otherwise objectionable” does not mean whatever a social media company objects to, but “must, at a minimum, involve or be similar” to obscenity, violence, or harassment. Political viewpoints, no matter how extreme or unpopular, do not fall under this category.

Well, I don't think that's been established in court, but it's probably not even important in the case of FB, Twitter and YouTube because every user agrees to the TOS as a condition of using the service.

Section 230 or not someone suing would have to show the company breached their own terms of service. I'm not up on any of the TOS agreements but I'd wager the techs' have protected themselves pretty well.

510 posted on 05/28/2020 9:06:40 AM PDT by semimojo
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