On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 20:28:57 -0700, rbowman posted for all of us to digest...


On 01/26/2021 03:40 PM, Tekkie? wrote:

On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:26:53 -0600, Jim Joyce posted for all of us to digest...



Judged by the standards of the owners of the specific platform under
consideration, obviously.

Ok, I'll accept that. But one must be on the correct side of the monolith.

I invite others to weigh in. I wasn't able to follow your "special
exemptions" argument.

I forget the carve out for them. Regulation 213? 203?

230. It started as an anti-indecency thing but that got dropped along
the way.

Paragraph C has two parts:

(1) Treatment of publisher or speaker

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.

(2) Civil liability No provider or user of an interactive computer
service shall be held liable on account of?
(A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or
availability of material that the provider or user considers to be
obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or
otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is
constitutionally protected; or
(B) any action taken to enable or make available to information content
providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material
described in paragraph (1)


1 exempts them from liability for material posted by third parties on
their site. This differs from traditional publishers. If 'Tropic of
Cancer' was banned it was the publisher of the material they went after,
not Henry Miller.

2 means they can censor anything they find objectionable without liability.

Repealing the whole thing means endless suits for any platform:

https://mashable.com/article/apple-telegram-lawsuit/

That's a little different since Ginsburg is suing the Apple App Store
and not telegram.

Rewriting it to include 1 and not 2 won't happen since the government is
all to happy to use private censors both internationally and domestically.

Now back to a.h.r!


Thanks for doing the research for me. I'll try to email it to myself.

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Tekkie