Summary
Lawmakers are once again pushing to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields online platforms from legal liability for user-generated content.
Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) are collaborating on a bipartisan bill to sunset the law in two years.
Repealing Section 230 aims to force Congress to renegotiate platform liability standards.
The proposal reflects growing frustration over tech giants’ power and content moderation practices, but past efforts have faced political gridlock despite bipartisan support.
For all the people cheering or indifferent to this:
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This would affect more than social media - this would affect ANYWHERE that has user accounts that can post content - blogs, wikis, website builders, hell, even email.
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The summary states this is so it can be “renegotiated”. Considering the current authoritarian direction of the United States, now would be absolutely the worst time to rewrite online content policing laws - it will absolutely be used to silence dissent.
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So Durbin is basically a Republican now huh. Good to know.
Durbin was one of the 10 that recently voted Yes on the Republican spending bill, so yeah Democrat In Name Only
Why the fuck is Sheldon Whitehouse sponsoring this??? Does he suddenly have shit for brains?
Good. All the major centralized/corporate social networks are Nazi bars now anyway; nothing of value will be lost if they can no longer exist.
Remember that the Fediverse could survive instances having legal liability for user-posted content because each user could run his own instance.
You are truly delusional if you think that the Fediverse is safe. This is just the first step towards using DNS to filter the internet of dissenting opinions, and lastly, this will be used to automate lawsuits against anything and anyone that hosts anything that those in power don’t like.
To spell it out, if they remove 230, and everyone just hosts their own platform, and those platforms are used to spread information and opinions that are counter to the administration, they will sue your ISP to cut off your service.
Yeah, I’m struggling to see the downside of this personally, which means there is no way in gods green hell it will happen.
