[okintheory]

When Ken Klippenstein obtained footage of an FSD Tesla causing a major accident [1] and wrote about it, he got blocked from being found through X/Twitter search [2]. I remember verifying the search block on my phone at the time.

If I were a US lawmaker, I'd take a moment to reflect on whether a company such as X/Twitter, which actively censors journalists to protect the financial interests of its owners, should really be granted Section 230 protection.

[1] https://x.com/kenklippenstein/status/1612848872061128704 [2] https://x.com/kenklippenstein/status/1604574747945275396

[tzs]

The whole point of section 230 is to let sites moderate user generated content without becoming responsible for what is in that content. What Twitter is doing falls squarely within the letter and the spirit of section 230.

[okintheory]

I'm not arguing that X/Twitter is doing something that prevents it from being protected by section 230 as it exists. But, when Congress granted these protections, I think they had in mind things like forum moderation to remove hate speech, not selectively censoring journalists that write critically of a company. So one could rethink whether companies that censor journalists should be protected.