[ExI] Section 230 and Antitrust

[BillK]

On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 at 19:10, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Wouldn't a completely unmoderated site feature content that is legally obscene, libelous or slanderous?   bill w
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Yes, but that's only for starters.

<https://www.npr.org/2020/05/12/854998616/in-settlement-facebook-to-pay-52-million-to-content-moderators-with-ptsd>
Quote:
Facebook will pay $52 million to thousands of current and former
contract workers who viewed and removed graphic and disturbing posts
on the social media platform for a living, and consequently suffered
from post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a settlement
agreement announced on Tuesday between the tech giant and lawyers for
the moderators.
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During that time, she had to sift through a barrage of posts published
by some of Facebook's billions of users. The suit said the content
included "broadcasts of child sexual abuse, rape, torture, bestiality,
beheadings, suicide, and murder."
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The underbelly of the internet is really, really bad.



BillK