Just to be clear on what the Supreme Court has ruled here: There is *zero* liability to avoid harm with your multibillion dollar platform. Enable terrorist recruiting? You're good! https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/18/23728423/supreme-court-section-230-gonzalez-google-twitter-taamneh-ruling
@ocdtrekkie This ruling largely broke the way I anticipated it would. I was TBH a little surprised the case ever *got* to the Supreme Court; the allegation was that the people who had killed Gonzalez were radicalized by YouTube-algoirthm-fed videos. That's like trying to sue Reader's Digest because someone read a trimmed-down version of *Atlas Shrugged* and decided as a result to go burn down an oil field to "stick it to the moochers."
There's a causal chain of responsibility here that is fundamentally not recognized in our society at present, *regardless* of the content that was selected by the algorithm. And opening that responsibility can dumps a *lot* of worms on the table; it increases, for example, state authority to regulate the kind of media people are allowed to see in general because it could radicalize them. Really hard to square that approach to culture-shaping with the intent and core purpose of the First Amendment (you're *supposed* to, for example, be able to tell your neighbor that capitalism is busted, or the draft is bullshit, or that algorithms are scrambling our brains, without a State arm having the authority to squelch that speech because it's gonna radicalize someone).
@mtomczak This is an area the first amendment should not cover. The core issue is that businesses choose to design these systems to maximize profit, even at great physical harm.
@ocdtrekkie Possibly, but this case fell apart on the first piece, not the second: the question of "were these guys radicalized by YouTube videos." There wasn't sufficient evidence it was a factor in the first place, apparently (as opposed to other factors). Like blaming Karl Marx for someone reading the Communist Manifesto and later blowing up a steel mill... Was it the book, or did that mill fire them, or...?
