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Because they can't be under US law.

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communica...

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Are you kidding me?! We need to get this law changed ASAP.

Look at this search result. This fake news stuff cannot be allowed to continue.

https://www.google.com/search?q=best+taco+place+in+San+Fansi...

It's a pretty essential law for maintaining the internet as we know it. If providers could be sued for the content, provided by others, that passes through their services then we can't really have an open internet. ISPs would be afraid to allow anyone to connect because they could be sued for what their costumers do. Search engines would be afraid to index sites because they could be sued for any misinformation on them. Github would be afraid to host projects because they could be sued if any of them violates copyright. It would be a very different internet.

You are right, and I was agreeing with it.

One downside to being sarcastic on a comment thread to make a point is I can't tell if people are down-voting me because they clicked the link, or because they didn't.

Another downside is that it doesn't add much to the discussion.

Sure it does, one of the most effective forms of provoking thought is satire.

People just don't like it when you don't think the way everyone else is thinking.

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