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Barr Raises Questions Over Whether Online Platforms Should Be Liable for User Content
The Epoch Times ^
| February 20, 2020 Updated: February 20, 2020
| Bowen Xiao
Posted on 02/20/2020 6:07:39 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Pro or con, there will go free expression of ideas.
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posted on
02/20/2020 6:09:11 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
02/20/2020 6:11:33 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
How a out censoring free speech or conservatives Mayor MacCheese? Barr is a worthless deep state douchebag! Investagating everything but the criminals!
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posted on
02/20/2020 6:17:07 PM PST
by
Bommer
(I am a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Clean-up sounds so good, and then reality sets in.
Conservatives get watched with a polished magnifying glass.
Leftists get watched through a telescope with one lens
that has been ground to the point of being opaque.
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posted on
02/20/2020 6:20:41 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(The DNC has a taxidermist on speed dial for Nancy, Hillary, and Ruth.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Bad idea. The biggest hammer to ensure political censorship doesn't occur is the threat of withdrawing CDA protection. But if they start getting held liable, then their going to start censoring a lot more than they currently do.
That's not good for conservatives, because we'll be the primary victims, and the left will get a pass.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Who should be held liable for the misdeeds of the deep state?
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posted on
02/20/2020 6:21:57 PM PST
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
They can’t have it both ways. If they want immunity they need to be hands off, no bias.
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posted on
02/20/2020 6:23:05 PM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Needs a little work.
no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
Providing they do not censor, ban, edit, delete or comment on the content from individual or group provider.
No hiding behind "community guidelines" or "hate/harmful speech."
Just because an information content provider has and states an opinion that a Platform provider dislikes does not make it harmful / hate speech.
It is simply free speech the platform provider personally hates.
Do it and kiss that Section 230 bye bye.
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posted on
02/20/2020 6:23:19 PM PST
by
TLI
( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: Army Air Corps
Oh Wow!
You can't pick and choose who stays and goes and still say you don't approve of the content that stays on your platform twitter....
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posted on
02/20/2020 6:26:46 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
To: Still Thinking
They cant have it both ways. If they want immunity they need to be hands off, no bias.That's it in a nutshell. At some point, they're going to have to declare themselves as either a content provider or a common carrier. They can't sit on the fence forever.
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posted on
02/20/2020 6:46:47 PM PST
by
NurdlyPeon
(It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
To: SkyDancer
Is Barr wanting to go after the Muzzie Jihad/terrorist sites and venues?
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Unlikely.
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posted on
02/20/2020 6:48:24 PM PST
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: Bruce Campbells Chin
I disagree.
This would open up these companies to law suits from conservatives for lies liberals are allowed to keep on these services.
It would be a gravy train!
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posted on
02/20/2020 6:50:08 PM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Platforms need to be utilities for communication, like the telpehone company. People can regulate what they see or not see by purchasing apps.
No reg on platforms.
No ability for platforms to regulate speech.
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posted on
02/20/2020 6:58:05 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Unreal.....I like Barr less and less.
Do we really want to turn our speech rights over to the courts?
Protect the first amendment.
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posted on
02/20/2020 7:19:51 PM PST
by
xenia
("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
To: ConservativeMind
What would end up happening is those services would start banning
any political videos, etc., not just lies from the left. And given that the mainstream media already give a free platform to the left, the left will be hurt much less by a ban than will conservatives because they'll have that alternative means of getting their views out.
We'll have nothing. They'll win because our views will never make it out to the general public.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Mr.Barr, the moment online content jumps out of a computer and kills, maims, or so much as raises a welt on somebody, you can consider holding the ISPs responsible. Short of that, hands off.
By the way, this is a huge red flag!
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posted on
02/20/2020 7:28:34 PM PST
by
tsomer
(Trump: the meanest SOB that ever loved our country!)
To: Bruce Campbells Chin
That is what is happening today.
Thats why we use Free Republic and email our friends and family information.
Because our message isnt getting out.
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posted on
02/20/2020 7:30:18 PM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: ConservativeMind
This would open up these companies to law suits How many lawsuits to put Google out of business, vs how many lawsuits to put Free Republic out of business?
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posted on
02/20/2020 7:44:57 PM PST
by
Wayne07
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Then WHY do the social media companies CENSOR us! HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE!!
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posted on
02/20/2020 7:46:00 PM PST
by
2harddrive
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