point that people seem to be missing on the Gonzalez v. Google case—the main role of recommendation algorithms at big social sites is to stifle "organic social" content from small companies, to force them to buy surveillance advertising instead.
This #Section230 case could break the Internet as we know it, but in a way that's good for small business—client-side content scoring and person-to-person recommendations would end up displacing platform-revenue-maximizing centralized processing
@dmarti The algorithms are designed to give people what they want. Even smaller startup companies need that too. And allowing sorting by aggregate customer reviews would presumably be just as illegal if this case goes against Google. Even Wikipedia won't be able to suggest articles on its front page anymore.
It'll break the internet for companies big *and* small.
