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Meta, Google under attack as court cases bypass 30-year-old legal shield

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/03/meta-google-under-attack-court-cases-bypass-30-year-old-legal-shield.html
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bediger4000•2h ago
Looks like Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is going to go away in the very near term - there's just too much conservative ill will against it.

Time to think about the consequences and opportunities that no Section 230 opens.

First, lawyers will make a lot more money until we figure out who's liable generally. I speculate that liability will fall on the deep pockets despite their best efforts. That implies comment sections go away, or are very heavily edited. I doubt people in general understand that Section 230 enables user content. A lack of platform immunity will mean much more moderation and editorial censorship. Conservatives are not going to get the forced readership they crave, and other people's financing their distribution.

like_any_other•40m ago
> Conservatives are not going to get the forced readership they crave

Is this referring to platforms allegedly [1] being more prone to ban conservatives? If so, undoing that (for the sake of argument - I don't see how repealing Section 230 actually accomplishes that) can't fairly be called "forced readership" any more than forcing a library to carry a book is forcing you to read it. Forced intermediarship would be the honest term.

You're not accusing content that platforms "force you to read" what they currently don't ban, are you?

[1] I say "allegedly", but for some types of right-wing content, this is not alleged at all, as the platforms themselves admit it: https://www.npr.org/2019/03/27/707258353/facebook-bans-white...

curt15•18m ago
Doesn't Truth Social also benefit from the protection of Section 230?
free_bip•8m ago
Yes, in fact it wouldn't be able to legally exist without it, just like every other user-content-focused site.

Tandem: An IDE for non-code docs for real-time collaboration with Claude Code

https://github.com/bloknayrb/tandem
1•bloknayrb•49s ago•1 comments

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https://joshkurz.net/
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1•benbalter•2m ago•1 comments

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1•karimf•2m ago•0 comments

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1•zyphorah•3m ago•1 comments

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1•rcarr•3m ago•0 comments

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1•robertmittl•5m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: LLM-Based Spam Filter

1•michidk•13m ago•0 comments

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1•paulpauper•19m ago•0 comments

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2•paulpauper•19m ago•0 comments

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https://www.nber.org/papers/w34866
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1•LabsLucas•23m ago•1 comments

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6•naves•28m ago•0 comments

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3•mitchbob•31m ago•0 comments

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4•herbertl•40m ago•0 comments

Database triggers to clean text inputs

https://sive.rs/clean1
2•theorchid•40m ago•0 comments