"This way of thinking has some distinct advantages. Right now companies
fight intensely to retain their exemption from “intermediary liability,”
guaranteed to them by the now-infamous Section 230 of the
Communications Decency Act. This frees them from legal responsibility
for nearly all content posted on their platform. Yet striking down
Section 230 could mean that the companies will either be sued out of
existence or start taking down swaths of content to avoid being sued.
Focusing on regulating algorithms, by contrast, would mean that
companies wouldn’t be liable for each tiny piece of content, but would
have legal responsibility for how their products distribute and amplify
material. This is, after all, what these companies actually do:
organize, target, and magnify other people’s content and data. Shouldn’t
they take responsibility for that?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/the-internet-doesnt-have-to-be-awful/618079/
