SCOTUS - Gonzalez v. Google - Responsibility of Social Media?

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[Shadow01]

If social media chooses to moderate content, then they should be held responsible for content they miss that should have been moderated.
if they choose to be completely open and unmoderated, then they should be allowed to continue in that direction without consequences or responsibility. They need to stand on a side and held to that choice Legally.

 

[Twangbanger]

But I have a feeling the choices may not be sliced along those lines. SM _wants_ government guardrails to avoid accountability. Legislatively, my understanding is if the platforms take on the government-delegated responsibility for censorship, it buys them protections (?). But I'm admittedly not well read-up on this.

In any case, I've determined I could care less. Effem. If the government wants to place its boot-heel on their neck, fine. They are of no use to free people anyway. It is a mistake to regard social media as being in the free speech business. They are in the government-protected money making business, and we have seen that any tasking which involves providing you with a free speech platform is purely incidental and secondary.

 

[cosermann]

The phone company does not moderate content and bears no responsibility for how people use the phone.

But, the minute you moderate the content, your immunity from liability should go out the window.

Shouldn’t have both liability protection and the ability to moderate content (with impunity essentially).

As it is, these platforms are being used as .gov surrogates to control/censor speech.

 

[Twangbanger]

I'd think it worth fighting for their independence from government control, if they had the intention of providing a free speech platform for citizens. But there's no evidence social media intend to fulfill such a role, so there's simply nothing here to fight for.

A gatekeeper negotiating the conditions of their service.

Government-entangled business litigating the circumstances of its further entanglement.

Nothing to see or care about.

 

[oze]

I'd think it worth fighting for their independence from government control, if they had the intention of providing a free speech platform for citizens. But there's no evidence social media intend to fulfill such a role, so there's simply nothing here to fight for.

A gatekeeper negotiating the conditions of their service.

Government-entangled business litigating the circumstances of its further entanglement.

Nothing to see or care about