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Scott Adams’ routine: feel yourself getting inadequate attention, so troll hard, and then wrap yourself in a mantle of victimhood and cry censorship when people react — is so painfully obvious and predictable of a grift that it’s appalling that people fall for it.

@ex0du5 @mmasnick @Julia

Since Musk has owned Twitter, its ads revenues are way down. So much for your theory that "sites host harmful speech because it makes then money".

@mmasnick

The anti-230 responses that you are getting are mostly from people who follow you because they like what you have to say.

So ... when you write about how altering/removing 230 will be very bad, do those anti-230 people think you are suddenly lying?

If you think Mastodon would survive for more than a month in a world where #Section230 is weakened I have some crypto to sell you
@mmasnick fights for us:
I Explained To A Court How California’s ‘Kid’s Code’ Is Both Impossible To Comply With & An Attack On Our Expression
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/22/i-explained-to-a-court-how-californias-kids-code-is-both-impossible-to-comply-with-an-attack-on-our-expression/
I Explained To A Court How California’s ‘Kid’s Code’ Is Both Impossible To Comply With & An Attack On Our Expression

Last year, Techdirt was one of only a very few sites where you could find out information on California’s AB 2273, officially the “California Age Appropriate Design Code” or &#822…

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I have lots of respect for the investigative journalism that @Julia has done for many many years. But her first opinion piece in the NY Times, about Section 230 gets a ton of basic facts wrong, misunderstands the law, and proposes an unworkable and dangerous "fix" https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/23/your-simple-solution-to-section-230-is-bad-julia-angwin-edition/
Your ‘Simple Solution’ To Section 230 Is Bad: Julia Angwin Edition

It’s getting to be somewhat exhausting watching people who don’t understand Section 230 insisting they have a simple solution for whatever problems they think (mostly incorrectly) are c…

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@mmasnick @michi

YouTube was as responsible for the 2015 terrorist attacks as it was responsible for the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks.

Which generation has the strongest argument that they are typically ignored?
The Silent Generation
29.2%
The Baby Boomers
5.8%
Millennials
30.4%
Gen Z
34.6%
Poll ended at .
If you want a truly clear, easily understandable, and thorough look at what the Supreme Court is actually looking at next week in the Gonzalez case, this piece by @jmiers230 is fantastic. I've been following these issues and this case, in particular, for years, and I still learned new stuff. https://medium.com/chamber-of-progress/what-to-expect-as-the-supreme-court-hears-gonzalez-v-google-aa3f3007c5cd
What to Expect as the Supreme Court Hears Gonzalez v Google

Next week the Supreme Court will hear the biggest Internet case in more than a decade: Gonzalez v Google. At issue is Section 230; the law that empowers all of us to create and engage with online…

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It's incredible to see some of the initial responses to the fatwa against Rushdie from people like Prince Charles, Roald Dahl, and Cat Stevens. I'd be curious to know how many of them later recanted. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/salman-rushdie-recovery-victory-city