Section 230

“Yesterday, a Los Angeles jury, both meta and YouTube liable Wah, wah. For a twenty-year-old woman's mental health crisis in a bellwether trial that treated platforms as, quote, defective products, and potentially marks the end to the absolute immunity nature o…”

“If you're going to start making these, whether it's a, you know, somebody individually is flagging it, or you have an algorithm that is essentially excluding 50% of the points of view, You should not get the multi-billion dollar subsidy that effectively what s…”

“We think that the way you really build industries is legislation. If you think back to the internet, that was built on really on the 96 telecom act. If, you know, and had things like section two 30, which, you know, you may know is now a contentious issue had …”

“Last year, there were two Supreme Court decisions addressing this very issue of whether algorithms basically obviated two-thirty protection, and the court found that they didn't.”

“I've long held the view that if you want to make online platforms liable as publishers for every piece of user generated content, then you're going to have very little free speech left. Cause I just think that corporate risk aversion is going to force these gu…”

“And that made sense when the internet was just a bunch of bulletin boards and it was not powered by AI, but we used that immunity shield and applied it to social media companies when they came along later. And so when they go and intentionally addict children,…”

“Where it's going to lead if they do Repeal section two 30 is towards greater censorship. All these companies are going to spend even more resources restricting what we can say and hear online”

“I don't think that the Section two 30 rewrite is going to be broad and sweeping. What I noticed from a bipartisan perspective by both the Democrats and the Republicans is that the one single narrow issue that they all seem to align on is not necessarily about …”

“And I think when that does happen, you will see a replay. Again, it'll be slightly different in terms of how it plays out, but exactly the kinds of plaintiff's lawsuits that we saw in pharma And in tobacco. And I think it's going to play out here.”

“You know, what I also look to, if you look at last time there were major changes to copyright law and the DMCA and carving out section two 30 exemptions where tech companies were not liable, the law has definitely continued to bend to the will of the technolog…”

“Section two thirties dead. In, as section two 30 as it has existed, which is basically given, and really at the time it was the YouTube, you know, allowed YouTube to flourish with user generated content. And it says, as long as you have a mechanism for taking …”

“And I think that had we taken a little bit more time to debate that and think it through, then some of the emergent effects that have to do with this kind of, you know, spreading of misinformation, this very polarized and outrage driven environment that we now…”

“So it looks to me like Google and big tech are going to win this one.”

“Basically what this lawsuit is arguing is that section two, 30 only protects the chronological feed. It does not protect the algorithmic feed. That seems like a stretch to me.”

“If you repeal section two 30, you're going to get vastly more censorship. Why? Because simple corporate risk aversion will push all of these big tech companies to take down a lot more content on their platforms. The reason why they're reasonably open is becaus…”

“Section two dirty was intended For web hosting companies, for web servers, not for this new thing that's been developed, because there were no algorithms from section two that already was put up.”

“That any review that a restaurant or business doesn't like on Yelp, they could sue Yelp for that. Without section two 30”

“The United States government is going to make an attempt to rewrite section two 30.”

“It just seems like this could be an interesting case where it's actually nine zero in favor for complete, for completely different sets of reasons.”

“I would like us to consider that the federal government mandate That if you want the benefit of level of, you want the benefit of section two 30 protection and this incredible freedom from lawsuits that only you and the gun lobby have because of lobbying, you …”

“Because when you're Designing an algorithm or using AI and setting the goals of the AI that you've created, the neural networks you've created, you effectively are making an editorial choice to promote something.”

“So they need to get this pin down quickly, get in front of regulators, get some laws passed, whether it's section two 30 or whatever. That's the path to salvation for Facebook.”

“Small startups can't hire 30,000 people to do content moderation. So this is like classic regulatory capture, but done brazenly in the open at a congressional hearing.”

“But if I was a betting man, which I am, I think that section two 30 is, their days are numbered, and Facebook, Twitter, Google, all these companies are going to have to look more like newspapers and television stations.”

“If you repeal section two, third, you're going to make the situation infinitely worse because section two, what is the response to these companies going to be? Corporate risk aversion is going to cause them to want to hire hundreds of low level employees, basi…”