Bard spotting on Bluesky 23 March 2025

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Section 230 exists mainly to do two things:

🔘 Make it possible for people to block objectionable stuff & ban / block accounts — without being sued;

🔘 Ensure you don't get sued for stuff others post which you didn't help them post.

Destroying Section 230 destroys those protections.

Sara Straw (@oneoneder.bsky.social):

??? It ensures that platforms don't get sued for stuff other people posted with their help

It is specifically useful because the platforms make it all possible

It protects Twitter from being sued when they blast lies all over everyone's feed, while Fox loses almost a billion for doing the same.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Fox has the ability & the opportunity to vet the information they broadcast in their curated content sent to their audience.

For a platform like Reddit to vet the information they merely supply the infrastructure to convey, they'd need to employ 2 million + people.

Also -

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Section 230 protects people who take action in good faith to remove objectionable content, from civil liability for the action of removing it.

It doesn't protect people from criminal liability who, demonstrably, through studied inaction, aid & abet crimes. Nor civil liability for aiding torts.