Once you open up social networks to liability for user speech, they will all look like the homepage for Disney.com.
A Section 230 repeal is an insane thing for Trump to want. It'd leave an immediate regulatory black hole. Nobody who wants this gone understands it.
A Section 230 repeal is an insane thing for Trump to want. It'd leave an immediate regulatory black hole. Nobody who wants this gone understands it.
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1344002976482873344
In the extraordinarily unlikely world where Section 230 gets repealed, the most likely next step would be mass deletion of Q and anti-vaxx accounts due to legal liability, the very same people who are begging for it to be repealed because they don’t know what it is.
Repeal of Section 230 would, ironically, be a doomsday scenario for QAnon accounts and anybody who prints salacious lies on social media.
It could also have a profound chilling effect for legit protest movements. It’d provide incongruous speech levers to the rich and powerful.
It could also have a profound chilling effect for legit protest movements. It’d provide incongruous speech levers to the rich and powerful.
Really, nobody should want this, but Donald Trump specifically should not want the repeal of Section 230.
His “rumors” about political opponents and voting machine companies become an enormous legal liability for any social network.
Instant nightmare for him and mostly him.
His “rumors” about political opponents and voting machine companies become an enormous legal liability for any social network.
Instant nightmare for him and mostly him.
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