"Section 230 provides, among other things, that "[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." It further provides that "[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of . . . any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.""
What constitutes material that can be excluded as 'otherwise objectionable'? Well we know that, anything that helps president Trump and/or is a bombshell against a Democrat, most recently Biden and 'the laptop from Hell' to quote The Donald.
There are critics on both sides, an not just from the 'Orange Man Bad' crew. I heard about it from Dan.
Otherwise objectionable gear from: Techdirt
Update: 'Tech Censorship Is on a Dangerous Path' writes Armstrong Williams at The Daily Signal [LINK]: "The titans of social media, Dorsey at Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook... [ ]...want to control what the public sees, which enables them to better monitor and, ultimately, influence every aspect of society and life. It is akin to China’s "free speech elite,"...[ ] " As we move closer to stifling free speech and elevating only the viewpoints desired by the Silicon Valley elite, let us remember the words of James Madison:
"Our First Amendment freedoms give us the right to think what we like and say what we please. And if we the people are to govern ourselves, we must have these rights, even if they are misused by the minority. We can never lose sight of this because the moment we do will be the moment we cease to be free.""
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