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Because they want to keep the protection, I think called sec 240, from being liable for what others say using their service.


§ 230 allows platforms (and individual users with moderation tools provided by platforns) to exercise active moderation based on their own view of standards; in fact, allowing that without it invoking liability as a publisher for the platform or moderating users in order to encourage and protect active private moderation is the whole purpose for which § 230 was included in one of the most sweeping internet censorship laws the US ever passed (most of which, other than § 230, related to government censorship and was struck down for violating the First Amendment.)

§ 230 does not require neutrality, and such a requirement would defeat its purpose.




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