Google makes one of the strongest arguments yet for Section 230 reform.
2. Big Tech has long argued that it needs Section 230’s unique set of liability protections because websites simply couldn’t operate if they were held liable for comments or user-generated posts.
3. Not so, according to Google’s own ad policy!
Google is now holding The Federalist responsible for comments and user-generated posts, and Google will be demonetizing the website as a result.
Google is now holding The Federalist responsible for comments and user-generated posts, and Google will be demonetizing the website as a result.
4. Google has no problem treating The Federalist as the publisher of comments and user-generated posts on that website for purposes of Google’s own ad policy.
Yet Google expends significant resources to protect its own platforms from that type of treatment under Section 230.
Yet Google expends significant resources to protect its own platforms from that type of treatment under Section 230.
5. This also appears to be an example of established media gatekeepers attempting to regain control of the political narrative - not through persuasion but coercion.
A legacy media outlet lobbied Big Tech to punish a new media competitor.
A legacy media outlet lobbied Big Tech to punish a new media competitor.
6. For Google, the hypocrisy here is stunning.
It has no problem providing a platform for Communist China propaganda, & it has censored posts the regime wouldn’t like.
Yet it draws a line on the comment section of a conservative publication in America.
It has no problem providing a platform for Communist China propaganda, & it has censored posts the regime wouldn’t like.
Yet it draws a line on the comment section of a conservative publication in America.
