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It should absolutely not be repealed. As you noted, it protects platforms from the speech of their users. Lemmy, too, benefits from this (at least for the instances in the US).
I've never heard of platforms abusing these protections to control what is shown. Can you explain?
It's the feed that I think Facebook started, but everyone uses. You think you are posting things and your friends see them, but in reality Facebook (or whomever it is) really controls who sees it (if anyone).
You just have illusion that you have a platform when you don't.
I think this is also the reason why social media companies are all deep into generative AI. With it they no longer need to even have humans produce content they want to show to others.
Twitter, facebook, et al, claim their arbitrary censorship and algorithms are not editorialisation, so they are not "publishers".
If platforms are protected from the speech of their users, they shouldn't be allowed to censor the speech of their users (unless that speech is actually criminal, as in defamation or specific, actionable death threats). The big platforms shouldn't be able to have it both ways.