Pichai, Dorsey Differ from Zuckerberg on Section 230 Changes
March 25 2021 - 2:18PM
Dow Jones News
By Ryan Tracy
Twitter and Google have indicated they are open to discussing
legal changes with Congress, but they have been less specific than
Facebook about what Section 230 changes they would support.
That trend continued Thursday when Sundar Pichai and Jack Dorsey
pointedly declined to endorse the changes Mark Zuckerberg proposed
(https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-zuckerberg-proposes-raising-bar-for-section-230-11616610616).
"We rely on the liability protections to actually take strong
action on particularly new types of content," such as a video of a
mass shooting, Mr. Pichai told lawmakers.
Mr. Dorsey cautioned against allowing governments to decide
content-moderation practices. "Forcing every business to behave the
same reduces innovation and individual choice," he said.
He also questioned the idea of differentiating between large and
small platforms, which Mr. Zuckerberg floated. "I think it's going
to be very hard to determine what is a large platform and a small
platform, and it may incentivize the wrong things," he said.
One possible explanation for those comments: Twitter may worry
that Facebook, its much larger competitor, will be better able to
handle costly regulations.
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