The Capitalist Manifesto
by Johan Norberg · 14 Jun 2023 · 295pp · 87,204 words
most in sectors where regulations increased the fastest.31 It is in this context that we should see Facebook’s new-found interest in abolishing section 230 of the Federal Communications Decency Act, which means that American platforms are allowed to moderate content without making themselves open to legal action for what
The Smartphone Society
by Nicole Aschoff
Washington Post or CNN does. By not self-identifying as a media company Facebook avoids liability for any nastiness that pops up on its site: section 230 of the Communications and Decency Act enables companies such as Facebook to avoid “intermediary liability” for the things people say or do on their platforms
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism
by Wendy Liu · 22 Mar 2020 · 223pp · 71,414 words
not to make their code publicly viewable and contestable should be held liable for any harm caused, even indirectly. In the US, an amendment to Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act could make platforms featuring user-generated content accountable for any content explicitly promoted in a recommendation engine.15 This
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
by Jonathan Rauch · 21 Jun 2021 · 446pp · 109,157 words
and weigh free-speech commitments; where to draw lines between outspokenness and harassment. On the legal front, a vigorous debate emerged over the future of Section 230, a U.S. statute shielding internet companies from civil liability for user-generated content—an exemption which was not available to offline publishers, and which
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networks and, 65–68, 70–73. See also liberal science scientism, 113–14 Scott, Andrew, 72–73 Scottish Enlightenment, 62 secondary boycotts, 216, 219–20 Section 230 (internet company liability statute), 147 self-censorship, 11, 13, 36, 220–23, 240 shaming. See canceling and cancel culture Shapiro, Barbara J., 102, 121 Sherif
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber · 29 Oct 2024 · 292pp · 106,826 words
get things right. In the 1990s, some of the Atari Democrats persuaded their colleagues to give internet companies a safe harbor in the form of Section 230, which protected them from any liabilities related to content users posted on their sites. The provision made the internet something closer to an open forum
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 22 Apr 2019 · 462pp · 129,022 words
data about the individual, some of the information in the data set itself will have to be stripped away. 32.Platforms were granted immunity under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Liability associated with the posting of defamatory articles could easily bankrupt the platforms, so it might be necessary to impose
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide
by Hawon Jung · 21 Mar 2023 · 401pp · 112,589 words
the United States as well. Several lawmakers and experts on online harassment and hate speech have called for the amendment of a key internet law—Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act—that protects tech firms from liability over content their users post, including sexually abusive materials. *Of course, men are not
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
by Brad Stone · 10 May 2021 · 569pp · 156,139 words
“necessary for serving the public interest.” Not mentioned in the report, to quell the chaos of the Amazon Marketplace, lawmakers could also reform the notorious Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which currently holds that internet providers like Amazon are not liable for the legal infractions of their users. Changes to
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Section 230 could force Amazon to be accountable for fraudulent or unsafe products sold on its site by third-party sellers. Regulators could also compel Amazon to
New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
by Frank Pasquale · 14 May 2020 · 1,172pp · 114,305 words
,” Connecticut Law Review 50, no. 1 (2018): 203; Danielle Keats Citron and Mary Anne Franks, “The Internet as a Speech Machine and Other Myths Confounding Section 230 Reform” (working paper, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-8, Boston University School of Law, Massachusetts, 2020); Carrie Goldberg, Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI
by Yuval Noah Harari · 9 Sep 2024 · 566pp · 169,013 words
, and they invest huge sums in lobbying efforts to throttle regulations that might undermine their business model. For example, they have fought tenaciously to protect Section 230 of the US Telecommunications Act of 1996, which provides immunity from liability for online platforms regarding content published by their users. It is
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Section 230 that protects Facebook, for example, from being liable for the Rohingya massacre. In 2022 top tech companies spent close to $70 million on lobbying in
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The Internet of Garbage
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American Marxism
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The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
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Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy
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Reset
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
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