Did I call it, or what?
Yeah but that’s a pretty easy call
Oddball , given that Facebook IS a private corporation and NOT a government entity.
A private corporation given special dispensation from libel and anti-trust laws....That's not a "free market" by any stretch.
Sure it is, it’s regulated but it’s still free. Government isn’t inserting themselves into the transactions between Facebook and its customers (other than to take its cut), from what I understand they don’t have any special immunity to anti-trust laws though, I mean other than their ability to buy politicians that is.
Facebook has all the same rights to regulate speech on its platform (I.e. it’s PROPERTY) as you do to throw some schmuck off your property for planting campaign signs on your front lawn.
By censoring ideas they do not agree with, they are a publisher, not a platform, and should not be granted the protections platforms enjoy.
Publishers censor content they don’t agree with, always have,.
Then Fascistbook is a publisher, not a platform.
As such, they waive their privileges and immunities under 230.
No, it doesn't work that way, what Facebook (and every other site on the Internet including THIS ONE) is immune to is lawsuits stemming from content posted by it's USERS. If Facebook, it's employees or designated representatives libel you on Facebook, then you can sue Facebook for it.
If we want to remove that protection then might as well shut down every site on the Internet that allows its users to post on it because who in there right mind is going to open themselves up to liability for what every Joe User happens to post, it's not feasible nor DESIRABLE.