The article is by Mike Masnick, founder of Techdirt. To wit:
Jul 29, 2023Mike Masnick, who founded Techdirt in 1998, writes for an influential audience of lawmakers, C.E.O.s and activists. Somehow, he’s still an optimist about the promise of technology.
Well if he’s got the ear of influential muckety-mucks what is he telling them? Who is his Senator? Also, not to nitpick but he doesn’t actually sound optimistic.
Ooh he’s credited with coining “the Streisand effect” so that’s cool.
I want to suggest if you live in a neighborhood of 1/3 acre properties: begin planning to convert the entire unbuilt property to some form of agriculture share and split growing responsibiity with willing neighbors be concerned and give aid to any in need accept that your local community starts the process to change the larger congress a person is not stupid, people are democracy only burns from the base up
to all the downvoters, why?
Probably because that’s completely off-topic.
Your intentions are noble, but people do not appreciate that.
how?
Because this is about the Democrats and Section 230 and you’re talking about growing food.
no, i am talking about how to fight this is grass roots
I know what you are talking about. It is not the topic of this post. That is why you are getting downvoted.
You asked why you were getting downvoted, I told you, and now you’re trying to argue with me about it. Which I am guessing is also going to get you downvoted.
Also, stop responding to me multiple times and in PM.
the spirit of my post, including the entire post must be valued
You could be forgiven at this point if you think that the Democrats are purposefully just helping fascism along on it’s way.
Sure, removing Section 230 means that comment sections and user-generated content will likely just…disappear from the internet.
But I’m sure incentivizing these companies to basically become one-way communications mediums like television will somehow help the rampant censorship and abuse.
Further, it’s yet to be even seen how much the Supreme Court is going to let Trump get away with. The courts may be out last enforcement mechanism, and the courts don’t have police of their own to enforce their rulings. The US Marshalls report to Trump directly.
God, they’re painfully useless and history will remember them as dilly-dallying fuckwits or worse co-conspirators hiding behind a veneer of legitimacy.
did you campaign like this against the dems during the election too?
Some people cannot do a lot of active campaigning for health reasons. The person you just asked that question to is one of them. I just thought you should know that.
if you are a dem hating fundamentalist that helped get trump elected then yeah i can see why you would see them as fascist
even the article says
most cases against them would still fail on First Amendment grounds
this is just an attempt to hold them accountable for the weoponised democracy destroying lie machine social media has become
attempting to make the democrats look like nazi collaborators takes the heat off the campaign against harris that got tump elected
i hope daddy putin is suitably grateful for your hard work destroying the US
I can sort of see the justification: the nazi hate machine is powered by twitter, youtube, et al having 230 as a shield to hide behind, and once they start being liable all that hate and outrage bait is likely to evaporate very quickly. It’s an ass-backwards way of getting there, but I can see a train of thought where it made some kind of sense.
Yes, but this would require someone to enforce “Nazis bad” and lol @ thinking the current admin would do anything but clearly define anything to the left of Hitler as hate speech.
