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.
I’m not going to educate you. Fucking look it up. While you still can.
Like I said, I’m not going to educate you. But if you think the problem with 230 is that bad people post bad things on the internet, you don’t have a problem with 230, you have a problem with the First Amendment.
https://www.techdirt.com/2020/11/02/your-problem-is-not-with-section-230-1st-amendment/
And besides, without 230 sites would have LESS incentive to moderate content, not more. 230 PROTECTS MODERATION.
If you have a problem with bad content on bad sites, you have a problem with THOSE SITES, NOT 230.
I spent a career trying to get sites to moderate better and it was fucking hard, but I remember the web before 230, and back then the lawyers told us NOT TO MODERATE AT ALL because doing so could create liability. That’s not a situation anyone should want to go back to.
You want an internet where the nazis can post whatever they want and the sites can’t take it down? Or where no one is willing to host a masto server for fear of getting sued for something a user posts?
You really don’t.
Jargoggles@fraying
"You want an internet where the nazis can post whatever they want and the sites can’t take it down?"
That's a considerable part of why certain politicians are trying to undo it.
@jargoggles that’s my point! And lefties are helping!
@fraying
Lefties or liberals?
Lefties or liberals?
@jargoggles meh. Whatevs