The parent's point is not that tech companies are unbiased or shouldn't be criticized for their bias, it's that §230 was originally adopted specifically to allow subjective moderation. It's a misconception that the law was predicated on a neutrality or objectivity obligation. Instead, it was meant to reverse court decisions that suggested that such an obligation might exist as a requirement for protection of intermediaries. §230 was meant to allow intermediaries to be protected while exercising editorial control.
That doesn't mean that platforms' actual editorial control is "fair"; it just means that the argument that platforms should obviously have to lose §230 protections over their editorial biases misrepresents the history of this legislation.
That doesn't mean that platforms' actual editorial control is "fair"; it just means that the argument that platforms should obviously have to lose §230 protections over their editorial biases misrepresents the history of this legislation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...