About time. The way Section 230 has previously been "interpreted" is cancerous. Section 230, as written, was CLEARLY modeled after common carrier law vs private carrier law. Common carriers offer shipping services to the general public with equal rules applied to all. If you're shipping 10 kilos of MAGA hats or 10 kilos of Antifa hats, both are handled identically. They dont peak inside the box and ban you for "hate hats". If they wish to restrict something, it has to be a blanket rule. E.g. if they want to prohibit shipping books, it has to be ALL books. There's no hanky-panky with books being allowed only if they align with their political preference. In fact, the ability of common carriers to even peek inside a package is pretty limited. If you tell them it's books, and it's actually your crazed manifesto laying out your plan to blow up the Pentagon, they're shielded from liability specifically because they didn't peek into your package. They just shipped the box and didnt look at what you put in it. The same as a platform like Poal isn't liable if you use it to call Angela Merkl fat. You can call anyone fat, hence the platform protections.
If they do peek, now they're private carriers. Private carriers work for you or themselves, and are responsible for who they work for and what they transport. E.g. if you hire a moving company to box up your stuff and ship it, they're going to notice if they're boxing up 500 kilos of cocaine and going to be liable for a crime if they ship it. Exactly the way the NYT is liable if they publish their plan to invade New Jersey.
I agree entirely. Now, the only problem is if it is gotten rid of entirely stripping sites like Poal of its protection to have "mean words" and "wrong think". I am concerned that this will ultimately be used to make censorship of these online platforms law not just "suggestions" and a "wink and nod" from the government.
If Section 230 was repealed, the legal status of Poal would revert to the pre-Section 230 state. Which was effectively common carrier vs private carrier. There were common carrier-esque BBS's where all legal content was allowed (similar to 4chan), and curated BBSes where the operator was liable for content but could moderate it to their heart's content.
Is there a site which isn't curated? Upvotes/downvotes, specific subs, banning people, deleting posts, etc. 230 seemed to be protection from government.