Lawmakers are trying to repeal Section 230 again
Lawmakers are trying to repeal Section 230 again
The push has bipartisan support. Again.
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.
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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.
The Nazi bars will survive. It's the dissenters and minorities trying to speak in them that will be silenced as a self-protective move by tech corporations.
All the major centralized/corporate social networks are Nazi bars now anyway; nothing of value will be lost if they can no longer exist.
Uh... Bluesky? And in the first place it won't be the big platforms losing here, but the small ones. What section 230 does is make it so you don't need a first amendment argument to prevent the courts from controlling what you do with your internet platform, because a first amendment lawsuit is very expensive to run compared to a section 230 lawsuit.
because each user could run his own instance.
They can, but that will push many people away.
I don’t buy the smaller platforms being hurt more argument.
It’s not hard to prevent undue burden on smaller platforms by adding in the bill that it only applies to platforms with more than $1B in revenue.
We need to get rid of 230 because it has given way too much immunity to the biggest internet companies and they have been simply shrugging away all their responsibilities. Let’s work out how to make this bill work for the people instead of shutting it out.
100% agreed. Not even that high. Platforms that generate more than $1 million in revenue. Wipe out these engines of disinformation.
But surely one user posting illegal content would get blasted to all connected instances making everyone guilty.
So... Worse. Much worse.
Remember that the Fediverse could survive instances having legal liability for user-posted content because each user could run his own instance.
And this would require each user to run their own instance. The Fediverse is already hard enough to get average folks to join, this would make it nigh impossible for most.
People outside the USA will still run instances. It might become harder for people in the USA to access them, depending on how these measures are enforced.
Sure, but wouldn't it be nice if people inside the USA could still run instances too?
Of course. In the current climate this bill would be a huge problem.
They'd do it, because the alternative would be no social media at all.
X would somehow magically be exempt from legal problems, it'd still be around. Same with Truth Social.
Damn, it's sad people can be so clueless yet still have a voice.
Yeah, I'm struggling to see the downside of this personally, which means there is no way in gods green hell it will happen.