While an unelected tech billionaire is effectively orchestrating a coup of the US government, violating federal law with apparent impunity, and disclaiming all responsibility for the chaos he’…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.