Taking a page out of Trump's playbook, MuslimAdvocates filed a lawsuit alleging that Facebook and its execs violated DC consumer protection laws because they *say* they remove "hate speech" but MuslimAdvocates doesn't think they do a good enough job. muslimadvocates.org/2021/04/muslim…
This performative lawsuit will be dismissed, and I can't help but feel that we may well see people who want no content moderation praising #Section230 and people who oppose those people arguing for compelled content moderation. Because, ya know...
Content moderation is extremely difficult to do well at scale, and impossible to do perfectly. We're all better off if everyone, regardless of whether they want more or less content moderation, are blocked from bringing lawsuits because they saw online expression they didn't like
To be clear, we should absolutely be having conversations about the issues of content moderation and how it could or should be done better. But we should have those conversations as stakeholders, consumers, and as a society. Not as a matter of law.
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