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Recommender systems constitute publishing, and Section 230 should not shield the platforms that build them from liability for the illegal content those systems promote. This site makes that legal argument, defines the "stupidity" the recommender-driven attention economy sells, and offers a practical roadmap for personal and family technology ethics that does not wait on courts or Congress.
Note
This site's founding brief was published here rather than filed with the Court — hence amicus curiae et amicus populi, friend of the court and friend of the people, offered to both rather than lodged on the Court's own docket. Its legal theory was vindicated in August 2026, when a New Mexico court rejected Meta's Section 230 defense and held it liable for a public nuisance caused by its recommender-driven product design. See Amicus Briefs.
Published Pages
- Stupidity: Definition and Species — Why the industry that markets "artificial intelligence" is in fact selling stupidity, defined precisely, and the five species of it this site documents.
- Recommender Systems Are Publishing — What recommender systems actually are, why ranking and boosting are publishing rather than hosting, and how advertising makes amplification the product.
- Section 230: The Shield and Its Limits — What Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act says, how courts expanded it, and why recommendation is publishing rather than hosting.
- Amicus Briefs — The brief filed amicus curiae et amicus populi
with the US Supreme Court in Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, and its
citations.
- Meta's Social-Media-Addiction Settlement — the up-to-$18B multistate settlement and New Mexico's separate $942M judgment against Meta, including a court ruling that Section 230 does not shield recommender-driven product design.
- Timeline: State AGs v. Meta — the docket-sourced timeline of that case, from the 2021 investigation to the August 2026 settlement.
- Personal & Family Ethics — A practical roadmap for personal and family technology habits: free software, simple phones, filtered content, and a weekly digital sabbath.