Derek Powazek đI 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.
TheBird Moved to Blahaj.ZoneYes. I'm sharing the following mostly for others since I went and looked it up myself.
And you're right, if we lose Section 230, so many of us would be unable to host our own servers, and the Fediverse would be in danger.
This is upsetting. Stripping away our ability to talk to each other online.
Quote from article: "âThe primary thing we do on the internet is we talk to each other. It might be email, it might be social media, might be message boards, but we talk to each other. And a lot of those conversations are enabled by Section 230, which says that whoeverâs allowing us to talk to each other isnât liable for our conversations,â said Eric Goldman, a professor at Santa Clara University specializing in internet law. âThe Supreme Court could easily disturb or eliminate that basic proposition and say that the people allowing us to talk to each other are liable for those conversations. At which point they wonât allow us to talk to each other anymore.â
Jeff Byrnes