I wasn’t calling for a wholesale repeal of 230; I know that Section 230 is important and I submit my prior posts in this thread as evidence to that.
I strongly believe that people should, in specifically targeted cases, be able to press charges and/or file suit to hold sites like Twitter accountable for gross irresponsibility of the kind that they’ve been practicing with regards to Trump and his tweets. Much the same as I argued in my initial post in this thread:
Twitter is enabling domestic terrorism. Companies like Twitter and their execs need to face real justice for that, the likes of which antitrust and strong privacy regulation simply can’t provide on their own. If the clusterfuck today that Twitter enabled Trump to incite and enact had actually been successful, I’m pretty sure that Section 230 as a whole would’ve been dead in a couple weeks.We need to draw a line in the sand somewhere. It should be here.
