Sacks: Repealing Section 230 will lead to vastly more censorship
David Sacks · E116: Toxic out-of-control trains, regulators, and AI · Feb 17, 2023 · at 39:40
David Sacks (partner at Craft Ventures) warns conservatives against attempting to dismantle Section 230 liability protections during a discussion on the Supreme Court's Gonzalez v. Google case.
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“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 because they're not considered publishers. They're considered distributors. They have distributor liability, not Publisher liability. You repeal section two 30, they're going to be publishers now, and they're going to be sued for everything, and they're going to start taking down tons more content, and it's going to be conservative content in particular that's taken down the most”
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