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                1. fascinating—using a §230 approach to argue facebook's trending news/feed is a service provider and not a publisher nyti.ms/2gemehz
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                §230 generally allows fb/goog/et al. to mod content but mostly use it to avoid taking responsibility for its effects en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communications_Decency_Act#History
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              this bit from Stratton v. Prodigy sounds like a pretty familiar argument nowadays in any case en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton_Oakmont,_Inc._v._Prodigy_Services_Co.
              OpenGraph image for en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton_Oakmont,_Inc._v._Prodigy_Services_Cooh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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            §230 was intended to *encourage* providers to monitor problematic content but it's mostly used to justify inaction en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_v._Yahoo!,_Inc.#Opinion_of_the_Court
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          i first learned about this *complex* intersection b/w law & networks in a guest lecture by Hal Abelson in 6.033 youtube.com/watch?v=TXgH4G81iH0
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        all this to say that the nyt op-ed is confused: 230(c) protects this good samaritan filtering (many people *expect* it)
        oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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      fb taking down fake news is not a Chilling Effect—fb is free to set its own agenda & norms around acceptable content & its privacy policies.
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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    the 1st Amendment does not guarantee a user's right to a row in a private organization's database