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0 pointskrapp2mo ago0 comments

>If you want unedited and unliable speech, you can always run your own servers.

Without Section 230, you personally are just as liable for the content on your basement server as big corporations are on their platforms, but those big platforms have the budget for a legal team and a staff of moderators and editors, and you probably don't.

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readitalready2mo ago

And do you know WHY you wouldn't get sued under section 230 when publishing content on a major corporate website?

Because lawsuits aren't free.

hn_acker2mo ago

> And do you know WHY you wouldn't get sued under section 230 when publishing content on a major corporate website?

> Because lawsuits aren't free.

Before Section 230, suing someone who posted defamation about you (which you can still do, because Section 230 has never restricted you from doing so) was not free either.

krappOP2mo ago

OK?

Lawsuits aren't free but the US is a very litigious society and people do get sued over the content they post online.

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