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> That, plus the FTC being able to sue any company for the inevitable false negatives that will happen means that the only reasonable response to takedown requests is to be extremely cautious about rejecting them.

... or to finally hire enough moderators to make competent judgements to avoid getting a counter lawsuit for restricting free speech.




The safe harbor provision ensures that they don't have to worry about getting sued for restricting free speech.




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