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That section should be repealed or rewritten. It was originally meant so hobbyists running forms wouldn't be responsible for content posted by the users.
Currently companies like Twitter, Meta, Google etc can control what is shown to users and hide behind this protection.
trump's admin change will likely make it worse though.
It should absolutely not be repealed.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?
Twitter, facebook, et al, claim their arbitrary censorship and algorithms are not editorialisation, so they are not "publishers".