While the ruling that YouTube is not a public platform answers an important legal question, another still remains over whether platforms are liable for harmful content
an anti-conservative bias audit of its platform, which found no evidence of bias. The company did ultimately tweak some practices that it felt had the possibility of restricting free speech. suspend
monetization for conservative personality Steven Crowder's videos after he consistently violated the company's community guidelines. While the ruling could give platforms a more definitive answer to one important legal question, another remains up in the air — the question of platform liability for harmful content. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act currently shields tech companies from liability for the content users and publishers post to their platforms. to discuss whether the law should remain as is or be changed.
It's unlikely that legislators would remove all protections, given that they are important to other platforms like digital publishers with comments sections, for instance. That said, it is within the realm of possibility that the DOJ decides to make changes that increase platform liability, even if only in specific areas like harassment or child abuse. While tech CEOs like
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