Jessica Lessin: Historical Section 230 protections are dead in the water
Jessica Lessin · #18: Why This Week Changed Social Media Forever · More or Less Podcast · Oct 13, 2023 · at 17:56
Jessica Lessin (founder and CEO of The Information) argues that the legal liability framework protecting internet platforms cannot survive recent misinformation and AI challenges.
0:00 / 0:27exact quote · 27.5s
▶ Watch the full episode on YouTube → 720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“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 down certain types of content, sort of the don't know, don't tell version of content moderation, right? I think that that is, as we know it dead in the water because of all of this.”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →
More from Jessica Lessin
Lessin: Trial revealed Altman paid Brockman $10M from family office
“It was revealed that Altman, because it was a nonprofit back then, was paid Greg ten million dollars out of his, like, own family office and kept it from Elon, and so all these sort of alliances were being formed beneath the surface, and it just seemed like a …”
Lessin: Leaked OpenAI memo targeted Anthropic's ARR math and compute investment
“There was a memo that was leaked from OpenAI, an OpenAI memo that was leaked. I think it was in OpenAI's interest for this memo to be out there. I also think it was written in a way where they wanted it to be out there, where they came after Anthropic. Both fo…”
Lessin: Tech Execs Privately Reject the US-China AI War Narrative
“In Washington tech execs go to Washington to say, we have to be trying to an AI at all costs privately, or even semi privately. The exact same people say, obviously the U S and China are going to both be leaders at AI. They sort of reject that the war narrativ…”
Jessica Lessin: Stripe is attempting to acquire PayPal
“The Information has a big Stripe financial scoop that is worth discussing because. We have not discussed Stripe in a while and it is trying to buy PayPal.”
Lessin: Stripe Is Teaming Up With Advent for PayPal Bid
“So what they're doing for this PayPal takeover offer, which, you know, is, is just that, like, no sign that any deal is done, and I'm sure other bidders will emerge and whatever, but they're teaming up with Advent, which is a private equity firm,”