While Democracy Burns, Democrats Prioritize… Demolishing Section 230?
While an unelected tech billionaire is effectively orchestrating a coup of the US government, violating federal law with apparent impunity, and disclaiming all responsibility for the chaos he’…
Section 230 was foundational to shifting the risk of running social networks. This, good or bad, brought us to where we are.
Once they knock it down, the unintended consequences will be... interesting. 🍿
While democracy burns, democrats do absolute dick.
Oh no no, they enthusiastically help dismantle the basic rights of American citizens; at least the ones with corporate interests.
The fact that Lindsey Graham is in bed with these fuckers on this bill should be all the red flags needed, to be honest.
"either willful ignorance or calculated misdirection"
Section 230 is good overall I think it just shouldn't apply to anything sorted by engagement or not clearly defined and auditable. Section 230 makes sense for Craigslist but not for Facebook/Twitter. If a site has a "suggested posts" section or "you may like" feature they should be treated as publishers and not protected.
Lemmy can suggest top posts. Should it be protected?
Lemmy cant. It has a clear cut sorting strategy which is open source. Assuming we're talking about actual suggestions which are based on something else than most upvotes, most downvotes, most upvotes per time.