Hillary Clinton Is Worried – WSJ

A federal law known as Section 230 has enabled the rise of social media by letting tech platforms make good-faith efforts to remove objectionable content without becoming liable for everything that individual users post. Take away Section 230 and, for example, the business model of Elon Musk s X is destroyed. Social media platforms would be sued into oblivion by trial lawyers. Here s what Mrs. Clinton said, according to CNN s Saturday transcript:

We should be, in my view, repealing something called Section 230, which gave, you know, platforms on the internet immunity because they were thought to be just pass-throughs. That they shouldn t be judged for the content that is posted.

But we now know that that was an overly simple view& if they don t moderate and monitor the content we lose total control&

We need to remove the immunity from liability and we need to have guardrails. We need regulation.

We need guardrails against political actors seeking more control over our speech, even perhaps especially in cases in which they claim to be acting on behalf of our kids.

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James Freeman.

Some people mellow as they age, and some just grow more odious.