European here, I was always confused watching U.S. Senate hearings with social media CEOs having to explain and be almost interrogated and accused of someone’s suicide from supposedly “watching content on the platform”. Why do they need to do that and is it only U.S. thing or does it happen somewhere else?
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The U.S. has freedom of speech laws that are much broader than any other nation on earth, because of this the government is not allowed to force companies to stifle speech.
Despite that restriction, many politicians want to suppress speech they don’t like. Because they aren’t able to legislate speech restrictions, they threaten to remove other protections (s230) if platforms don’t do what the politicians tell them to.
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