On Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:45:17 +0100 Jan Claeys <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2026-03-11 at 17:16 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be > > treated as the publisher or speaker of any information > > provided by another information content provider. > > > > That lets companies like Meta and Google off the hook for what their > > users say and do. > > It does not leave them off the hook for what they do themselves though > (like the hyper-addictive algorithms, privacy-violations, etc.). >
No, but they're all in bed with the US government one way or another, so the law doesn't apply to them. > > And they already block many ridiculous things anyway; e.g. I just saw > someone who had to pixelate her 5yo boy’s nipples on a beach photo > from last summer because otherwise Instagram blocked it. > Which is a bit odd since everyone is born with a couple and there seem to be no moves as yet to prevent people seeing their own... -- Joe
