The Wisdom of Bassets
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Nick just recently covered in some depth why repeating someone elses libel/slander isn't gonna protect the person doing it.So basically yeah, they're trying to say that since Ron heard it from someone else, he can't be punished for repeating it. No "provider or user" suggests that 230c1 does apply to Twitter users, and the "or speaker" suggests it would apply to defamation.
Aka, they're claiming Section 230(c)(1) makes it impossible to punish anyone who uses the internet for any speech crime -- Defamation, Slander, Libel -- as long as they claim to have heard the things they are saying from someone else. (Would Information Content Provider be other publishers, or individual users, or "fucking anyone"?)
Dear god what a Hail Mary.
By this logic, literally any speech, no matter what, is legal. Want to send Trump a Death Threat? Say you heard online someplace that he's gonna die screaming. Want to lie about someone? "You heard it somewhere." Want to defame people? Retweet in a circle, deleting the original tweet. In each case, 230c1 says you're not the speaker, ergo, you can't be punished for it.