<story><title>FCC to move ahead with &apos;rulemaking&apos; on Section 230</title><url>https://twitter.com/AjitPaiFCC/status/1316808733805236226</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akersten</author><text>HackerNews could not exist in your proposed world.&lt;p&gt;I doubt YC would hire a full-time staff of moderators to vet every single post. Since we remove things for being off-topic or overly mean, the only possible conclusion is that HN would shut down because they do not want to bear liability for the posts they leave up.&lt;p&gt;The Internet as we know it would not exist without S230. Please read this[0] for a primer.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techdirt.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;20200531&amp;#x2F;23325444617&amp;#x2F;hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techdirt.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;20200531&amp;#x2F;23325444617&amp;#x2F;hello...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>I think that every company should decide if they&amp;#x27;re a &amp;quot;publisher&amp;quot; or a &amp;quot;platform&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re a platform, you&amp;#x27;re not responsible for what your users say (except directly illegal stuff, eg. child porn), and have no say in what stays on, or gets removed&amp;#x2F;hidden (except, again, illegal stuff).&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re a publisher, you have a say what is posted on your site, and you carry full responsibility for all the onsite content.&lt;p&gt;Walking the line, and not wanting to take responsibility in some cases, but still deletin in other cases should be forbidden</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnHonestComment</author><text>HN also wouldn’t be able to benefit from immunity when infringing my content while simultaneously shadowbanning me for “wrongthink”.&lt;p&gt;HN would have to give users tools to moderate content themselves, instead of HN using moderation as a tool of political control.&lt;p&gt;Good.</text></comment>
<story><title>FCC to move ahead with &apos;rulemaking&apos; on Section 230</title><url>https://twitter.com/AjitPaiFCC/status/1316808733805236226</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akersten</author><text>HackerNews could not exist in your proposed world.&lt;p&gt;I doubt YC would hire a full-time staff of moderators to vet every single post. Since we remove things for being off-topic or overly mean, the only possible conclusion is that HN would shut down because they do not want to bear liability for the posts they leave up.&lt;p&gt;The Internet as we know it would not exist without S230. Please read this[0] for a primer.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techdirt.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;20200531&amp;#x2F;23325444617&amp;#x2F;hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techdirt.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;20200531&amp;#x2F;23325444617&amp;#x2F;hello...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>I think that every company should decide if they&amp;#x27;re a &amp;quot;publisher&amp;quot; or a &amp;quot;platform&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re a platform, you&amp;#x27;re not responsible for what your users say (except directly illegal stuff, eg. child porn), and have no say in what stays on, or gets removed&amp;#x2F;hidden (except, again, illegal stuff).&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re a publisher, you have a say what is posted on your site, and you carry full responsibility for all the onsite content.&lt;p&gt;Walking the line, and not wanting to take responsibility in some cases, but still deletin in other cases should be forbidden</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hyper0perator</author><text>Disagree. Platforms are immune to liability of their users. HN could become a platform and abide regulations like the phone company.</text></comment>