Just like with any company or industry, social media firms are incentivized to keep consumers hooked as long as possible.
And what would prevent future administrations from using Yang's censorious architecture to label and suppress speech they find polarizing merely because they disagree with it politically?
Yang's push to alter 230 is similarly misguided, as he seems to think that removing liabilities would somehow end only bad online content.
Yet social media sites are already working to police content they deem harmfulsomething that should be clear in the many Republican complaints of overzealous and biased content removal efforts.
It goes without saying that social media companies haven't done a perfect job with screening content, but their failure says more about the task than their effort. Even if Facebook or Twitter or Youtube could create an algorithm that only deleted the content those companies intended for it to delete, they would still come under fire for what content they find acceptable and what content they don't.Dismantling Section 230 would probably discourage efforts to fine-tune the content vetting process and instead lead to broad, inflexible content restrictions.
The bill, which the state House passed yesterday, says police may seize vehicles in which they find untaxed vaping products.
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