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CNN shut down its Facebook page in Australia after court liability ruling:
CNN shut down its Facebook page in Australia on Wednesday, after an Australian court ruled that media outlets are liable for defamatory user-generated comments.
[...] The deteriorating effects of the court's ruling on online speech in Australia serve as a warning of what's to come if U.S. lawmakers succeed in their efforts to weakening protections against such legal decisions in the United States.
[...] The court's ruling previews the grim future in store if U.S. politicians get their way and dismantle Section 230, the keystone U.S. law that shields websites from liability over user-generated content. Without it, social media platforms and any other website with user-generated content—especially those without Facebook's deep pockets—would likely die. Both Republicans and Democrats, President Joe Biden included, would like it dismantled.
Should the person doing the defaming be liable, or the owner of the page the defamation is posted on be liable?
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Sunday October 03 2021, @10:59PM (1 child)
I would rather a website does not allow the posting of CP. In your scenario, all websites would remove the ability to moderate to avoid liability, but would also open the gates to 4chan (which others call Hell).
Actually, the most likely outcome of all is simply no comments section at all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 04 2021, @08:04AM
If you extend the thinking all the way out, you have a number of people commenting on this website cheering on the idea that the very website they are commenting on get rid of all its comments or completely open the door to all the garbage comments they loathe.