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I kinda do understand their stance, it sucks but its better than having to deal with legal shit.
Why do you assume that only US law applies here?
So you say something like twitter is free to host child porn and they can just say "We did not post it, we just make it available"?
No, not exactly. It's more like "a service isn't held responsible for what users do with it". If an analogy is helpful, imagine charging the phone company because two people arranged a bank robbery over the phone. That's what section 230 prevents. (It's more complicated than I'm making it but for our purposes the complications aren't pertinent.)
LW was in no danger at all, assuming that if they were contacted about copyright violations, they react in a sane way, by taking down the offending content.
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I'm sorry, where exactly in the German law is this "section 230" you people all keep mentioning?
Don't even get me started. Go ahead and ask any of the admins which copyright laws they're so terrified of. They'll tell you US laws.