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Gonzalez vs. Google Live Analysis – Institute for Rebooting Social Media

by heliostatic on 2/21/23, 2:42 PM with 3 comments

  • by andrewfromx on 2/21/23, 2:52 PM

    Great metaphor I heard yesterday about 230 - think of three things: paper, the newspaper stand, and the newspaper publisher.

    Obviously the company that makes blank paper newspaper publisher's buy is never liable for what's printed on it. They sell it blank!

    The newspaper publisher is of course liable if they decide to make a new paper called "How to build Bombs Weekly".

    And even the newspaper stand is liable if they decide to carry this new paper. (They are not liable for something bad printed in a mainstream paper since they had no way to know a normally good publication would suddenly include something terrible.)

    Now what is youtube? Do they make paper, or are they the newspaper stand?

  • by heliostatic on 2/21/23, 2:44 PM

    Live blog of the oral arguments in Gonzalez (the section 230 case) today with an exceptional panel:

    Mary Anne Franks

    Mike Godwin

    James Grimmelmann

    Gus Hurwitz

    Jeff Kosseff

    Emma Llanso

    Alan Rozenshtein

    Eugene Volokh

    Benjamin Wittes

    Jonathan Zittrain

    Moderated by Kate Klonick