Twitter admits it's biased so time to end its Section 230 protection

 

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The entire purpose of Section 230 was to protect content neutral platforms from lawsuits just like the content neutral phone company can't be sued for what someone says to you on the phone.

That makes sense so long as a platform is content neutral.  Clearly if say the National Review website were to publish a lie about someone they could be sued precisely because they are a publisher not a content neutral platform.

But with Twitter declaring that it sensors voice it doesn't like not just voices calling for criminal actions Twitter is unequivocally saying it's a publisher like National Review not a contend neutral platform like the phone company. 

Publishers are held responsible for what the choose to allow on their sites.  If Twitter didn't choose what showed up on its site it wouldn't be responsible either but Twitter is on record saying that they do choose what is allowed on their site which means that they are responsible for everything on their site.

So if some loon calls you a racist who embezzles from your job you should be able to sue Twitter since Twitter chose to allow that post to show up in public.

The financial implications of Twitter being legally responsible for every tweet would provide strong incentive for Twitter to return to a content neutral approach.