Section 230

“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…”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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”

“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…”

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

“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”

“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.”

“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 …”

“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…”

“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.”

“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…”