I think that this week’s Gerstell reading was particularly fascinating. I think what I found to be most intriguing to me was the idea of looking at how laws should change based on the times. I never really thought of internet and web companies being underdogs in a corporate world, as I grew up around large tech businesses such as facebook, google, and even twitter. However, looking back, it is easy to realize that with Section 230, most of these companies would not have been able to thrive in the way that they did. However, I also think that the points of tension between liberals and conservatives today is particularly interesting as well. Conservatives are arguing that the changing of Section 230 will allow liberals to erase conservative viewpoints from social media. However, most of the content people want to be looked at is factually incorrect information. Does this mean that conservatives are against fact checking in general? Have they considered creating a way of both allowing Section 230 and the First Amendment to coexist with factually correct information? Overall, I thought this article pointed out some interesting arguments that I had never truly thought about before.
One Reply to “Week 11? -Mira Levinson”
Comments are closed.
It wasn’t that long ago actually that Google seemed like the nifty little challenger to Apple! That’s kind of mindblowing to think about.
Well, what does the article say about whether conservatives/liberals might be more inclined to support conspiracy theories? I find it quite interesting, given that security tends to be a more conservatively favored issue.