Should tech platforms be liable for the content they carry?
America’s Supreme Court grapples with their fiercely contested “Section 230” immunity
IN 1941, in “The Library of Babel”, Jorge Luis Borges imagines a vast collection of books containing every possible permutation of letters, commas and full stops. Any wisdom in the stacks is dwarfed by endless volumes of gibberish. With no locatable index, every search for knowledge is futile. Librarians are on the verge of suicide.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “The power of suggestion”
United States February 18th 2023
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