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Scam ads and the sale of banned goods. They don't do anything about it because they aren't liable.

Repeal section 230

If you place these ads you should be held accountable. Meta has a duty to know who they're taking money from.



> Repeal section 230

§230 protects Meta from liability for user-generated content. Ads are not user-generated content. So repealing it would do absolutely nothing in this case.


Advertisers are business users and the ads are generated by them.


Naah, I'd rather not go back to the days of noted penny-stock scammer Jordan Belfort suing every online forum to hide evidence of his crimes as "defamation", thank you very much.

Furthermore, the precedent that CDA 230 was intended to overturn would not help much. Fraud isn't defamation, and there's all sorts of lying you can do in advertising that doesn't rise to the level of fraud in the eyes of the law. So the courts might just decline to extend the Belfort precedent to the advertising business altogether.

What you want is a law that explicitly says "CDA 230 does not apply to fraudulent advertising", explicitly defining advertising as any speech that the speaker is paying to publish on the platform. This neatly exempts all the same speech that CDA 230 was intended to protect while still allowing you to sue the shit out of Facebook[0] for taking money from scammers.

tl;dr Free Speech should only apply to free speech. Money speech is not Free Speech.

[0] It is always ethical to deadname corporations.


Not sure why you got downvoted so hard!

Banks can’t take money from drug cartels. Why can meta and google take money from crypto scams ripping people off


Repealing section 230 scares the users here but a lot of these problems stem from a lack of liability.

They say the people placing ads should be liable. This sounds reasonable but in practice they're anon overseas and can't be held accountable but Meta will still take their money!




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