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Hmmm. No. In a "marketplace of ideas," each idea has a price. Some are held dear and others are viewed as worthless. Regardless, each idea is available to you, and to future genera…

I don't think Big Tech is scared of little old me, the bully, LoL. My goal isn't to hurt Google/Twitter/YCombinator, but to interject some responsibility. That responsibility is co…

A few notes: 1.) A and B are not my proposals; They're case law that has been preempted by C. 2.) Copyright falls under the DMCA, which pretty much follows A's procedures (i.e., a …

Ha! Are you trying to defame me by calling me a liar? I've quoted you twice and paraphrased your argument once by saying that it "seems to be that CDA 230 doesn't matter." Perhaps …

Let's say I post the following on a forum: "X is a rapist." (Where X is a private figure for simplification.) The nuance is as follows: A) Under Cubby without proactive moderation.…

You said, "Section 230 is just a way to shortcut litigation." And that, "There would be one case, it would go to the Supreme Court, and would reinforce the key components of Sectio…

No. There is a valley of nuance between Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc. [1] and Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co. [2]. All of this nuance was being worked out in the co…

"But Section 230 substantively protects more speech than the First Amendment, and the First Amendment will not adequately backfill any reductions in Section 230’s protections." — Y…

YouTube and the NYT are fundamentally different businesses BECAUSE of CDA 230. You're right that YouTube will exist as long as CDA 230 exists. However, if CDA 230 is ever repealed,…

Please read your citation: https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndlr_online/vol95/iss1/3/ Newspapers do not enjoy CDA 230 protection. They face actual liabilities and carry liability ins…

I can address your articles, but they're at odds with one another. More specifically, the Harvard one claims CDA 230 is superfluous, while the Notre Dame one argues it is essential…

I don't want to compel speech. I want to reattach a cost or liability to YouTube that was removed via state power. Remember, Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co. "held th…

The point of repealing section 230 is to end YouTube as we know it. Basically, YouTube becomes the Washington Post and can carry fully moderated content that it selects and publish…

The libertarian stance would be to repeal CDA 230. I don't know any libertarians that prefer statutory law to common law. "Libertarians share a skepticism of authority and state po…

Maybe actors should take the same course hunters have to take. I'm not a hunter, but I took one for fun, and the first thing you learn is always to assume a gun is "hot" until you'…

Yes, sure. But the point is that, under certain circumstances, the use of the key can exceed your level of authorization. Possession of the key isn't a get out of jail free card.

"If a landlord does not give notice to the tenants or enters for an unauthorized purpose, the landlord may be charged with trespassing" [1]. [1] https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.c…

If the CFAA doesn't apply to sys admins working at the highest levels of authorization, it seems to be a useless law. Foreign actors can simply hire sys admins to access whatever t…

So, what about the Michael Thomas case? Does this verdict overturn his conviction? http://www.epspros.com/news-resources/news/2018/it-worker-lo... "Mr. Thomas challenged the verdic…

Yeah, I don't buy this line of argumentation. Suppose the locked room is an apartment and the person with a key is your landlord. I'm pretty sure he's not authorized to enter and d…

The "problem" here is that a market for infrastructure bugs now exists. The birth of a market isn't a bad thing, though. Furthermore, the market hasn't created the bugs, but expose…

Yes, but many of those researchers rely upon tools supplied by the oligopoly to communicate. Plandemic is probably a stupid movie. I haven't seen it, so I cannot judge. Regardless,…

This comment cannot be upvoted enough IMHO. This scandal is the medical science equivalent of Enron, and it could've easily been covered up in a world where a oligopoly determines …