Regarding "Censor more, or kiss your liability shield goodbye and get sued into oblivion”….
For now, Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act actually prohibits suing a social media company so long as the social media company did not create the offensive content or edit the content posted by a user. So, content creators are liable for what they post, not content hosts. Commenters here on Substack can be sued for what they post (if they can be identified), but Substack cannot.
With regard to Musk, the jury is still out on whether he will use Twitter for his own nefarious purpose. At the moment, I’m hoping for the best, but I won’t be surprised when his companies—Tesla, Neuralink, StarLink, The Boring Company, and SpaceX—are given top billing in everyone’s feeds, and that Twitter will somehow be used to hypnotize us all into becoming volunteer transhumanist lithium miners on some nearby dead planet.
Regarding "Censor more, or kiss your liability shield goodbye and get sued into oblivion”….
For now, Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act actually prohibits suing a social media company so long as the social media company did not create the offensive content or edit the content posted by a user. So, content creators are liable for what they post, not content hosts. Commenters here on Substack can be sued for what they post (if they can be identified), but Substack cannot.
With regard to Musk, the jury is still out on whether he will use Twitter for his own nefarious purpose. At the moment, I’m hoping for the best, but I won’t be surprised when his companies—Tesla, Neuralink, StarLink, The Boring Company, and SpaceX—are given top billing in everyone’s feeds, and that Twitter will somehow be used to hypnotize us all into becoming volunteer transhumanist lithium miners on some nearby dead planet.