Derek Powazek 🐐I wonder if people using mastodon know that, without section 230, no one could legally afford to run a mastodon instance in the US. Section 230 protects what we do here every day. Politicians threatening 230 are threatening free speech on the internet.
Christina Warren@fraying there’s an insane amount of anti 230 people on this site and in circles where it is in their direct interest to fight for section 230 who don’t because of really bizarre arguments about stuff they don’t like that is also protected. I’ve given up trying to reason with them but I fear it will lead to us all losing.
Mike Masnick ✅@film_girl @fraying last month i gave a talk in a law school class, where the prof first split the class up into two groups, one had to defend 230 and the other had to explain why it was bad. Both groups gave talks on why it was bad. The "defense" was "it was good at first, but now it's not."
The talk I gave to them very quickly changed...
@mmasnick @fraying people love to be dismissive of slippery slope arguments but sometimes it is a slippery fucking slope. Like boiling a frog. As someone who so deeply and completely loves the internet (the good so definitively outweighs the bad I won’t even partake in arguments to that pretend otherwise), seeing marginalized groups fight against preserving the internet for what it is makes me lose my mind.
@film_girl @mmasnick it’s not even a slippery slope! It’s just one thing. Section 230 protects our rights to post and host stuff online. Remove it and we remove that protection. Short slope!
@film_girl @mmasnick it’s nice to find at least two people who understand this stuff. Keep fighting the good fight, y’all.