@mc We literally just had precedent after precedent showing that platforms won't be held liable for random things someone posts, unless they're involved in it.

Even the frivolous lawsuits over whether Twitter made a mistake in it's moderative decisions over child porn, and Reddit simply had a piece of child porn on it's site (even if they would get to moderating it), were dismissed. Two things where there might've been potential liability.

It was very questionable whether these lawsuits had merit, even several years ago.

This is honestly consistent with First Amendment principles that liability can lead to chilling effects where far more than just intended content is removed. If it would apply in a book store, I don't see why it shouldn't apply when so much more expression is at stake.

https://qoto.org/@olives/110547472857036416 I wrote some about what the EFF got wrong about Reddit. They completely missed puritanism, whether it's censorship, suppression of content, or all those discussions where they were going to do censorship.

Policies are unilaterally changed without any real justification to it (and it's down so rather arbitrarily). It's all down to corporate priorities. All of this has been creeping up for the past five years. If the EFF doesn't want events like this happen, they've got to be far more proactive about spotting it as it develops.