How a Law That Shields Big Tech Is Now Being Used Against It(nytimes.com)

How a Law That Shields Big Tech Is Now Being Used Against It

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/technology/meta-section-230-lawsuit.html

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"preemptively protect an effort to build software that filters content because an internet user simply does not want to see it."

Is this not the basis of every adblocker ever? I mean, what is special here? If nothing, then does this put every adblocker in a protected class of software? And what are the limits of that protection?

If there is something special about blocking feeds in Facebook, which is different from an adblocker, what is it?

reaperducer2년 전

Is this not the basis of every adblocker ever? I mean, what is special here?

>his own software that lets users automatically unfollow everyone on Facebook.

>In 2021, after a developer released software to purge users’ Facebook feeds of everyone they follow, Facebook threatened to shut it down.

achristmascarl2년 전

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