230, or not 230? That is the EARN IT question
EARN IT is pretty disingenuous in how it is designed, of course, but I am all for making it harder and harder to retain Section 230 immunity: It's a mistake that we allow it in the first place.<p>We should indeed continue to erode the eligibility for Section 230 to the point that either the limitations of remaining eligible for immunity makes it easy for competitors to produce better offerings without immunity, or that these companies accept legal responsibility for their actions as a cost to doing business the way they want to. Perhaps this is a vehicle upon which we gradually sunset immunity-reliant platforms.<p>Section 230's supporters constantly push hilariously insane narratives about it's importance, suggesting that without it companies would be inherently violating the law any time one of their users violated the law, or that taking reasonable measures to prevent platform abuse is "impossible" at the scale Big Tech operates at.<p>It's more than past time that we regulate tech companies and hold them responsible for massive abuses permitted by their platforms just as we regulate every other sector of business.