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Tonight we investigate the hacker known as 4chan. More at 9.
Who is this "Four Chan"?
As much as I believe it is a breeding ground for right wing extremism, it's a little strange that 4chan is being lumped in with these other sites for a suit like this. As far as I know, 4chan just promotes topics based on the number of people posting to it, and otherwise doesn't employ an algorithm at all. Kind of a different beast to the others, who have active algorithms trying to drive engagement at any cost.
anything but gun regulation, i guess.
Platforms should be held responsible for the content their users publish on them, full stop.
Content creators should be held responsible for their content. Platforms are mere distributors, in general terms, otherwise you're blaming the messenger.
Specific to social media (and television) yes, they bank on hate, it's known - so don't use them or do so with that ever dwindling human quality called critical thinking. Wanting to hold them accountable for murder is just dismissing the real underlying issues, like unsupervised impressionable people watching content, easy access to guns, human nature itself, societal issues...
Then user generated content completely disappears.
Without the basic protection of section 230, it's not possible to allow users to exist or interact with anything. I'm not sure you could even pay for web hosting without it.
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Personally I believe in free will. Nothing should take any responsibility away from the one that chose to kill.
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