Beto O’Rourke apparently thinks it will pass legal muster to “require large internet platforms to adopt terms of service to ban hateful activities” and “remove legal immunity from lawsuits for large social media platforms that fail” to do so. There’s no indication as to who or what determines which platforms qualify as “large”, nor any mention of who or what determines which platforms have failed to adopt the prescribed terms of service and therefore which companies have their Section 230 immunity stripped away.

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Addenda

1. Or, on the political side, as Adam Steinbaugh puts it, “[W]onder which version of 230 amendments will succeed: the one requiring social media sites to host offensive speech or the one requiring them to ban it.”