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Reading the law, it sure seems to be aimed at protecting services like ISPs, web hosts, CDNs/caches, email hosts, et c, not organizations promoting and amplifying specific content they’ve allowed users to post. It’s never seemed to me that applying 230 to, say, the Facebook feed or maybe even to Google ads is definitely required by or in the spirit of the law, but more like something we just accidentally ended up doing.


I thought safe harbor was the relevant statute here (section 512 of DMCA)?


That’s narrowly concerned with copyright infringement, no?


Yeah. It's been a while. This is interesting




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