It won't, those giants will thrive while platforms like td.win die. 230 is meant to protect forums owners from legal ramifications for what is said by users. Remove 230 and an army of leftist lawyers will start scrubbing freedom off the internet while the socialism media giants go full 1984 and embrace the automatic audit age. Without 230 all public squares on the internet must be run like a publisher. It would be an absolute disaster. Then imagine Biden gets in, and pumps some meth into our hate speach laws. That sounds like paving the way for their endgame. No the issue with 230 is that it broadly defines that moderators can remove "offensive" or "objectionable" content (I forget wich word is used) and still be considered non editorial. We need a clear legal and limited definition of the kind of content that is allowed to be removed by moderators, and then a mandate for transparency if a platform decides to moderate more broadly than those limitations. That would be a good start. We want to force these companies to either be impartial public squares OR clearly define their political biases. We also need some serious regulation to limit the scope and add transparency to ai moderation and content selection. Ai cencorship and ai suppression or promotion of content is defining this information civil war from the shadows and it needs the light of day. I understand your desire to just wipe out these companies but we need to protect freedom first, free speach is the light that shines in the darkness.
Works for me. If it causes FB, Twitter, and Reddit to shut down, so much the better.
It won't, those giants will thrive while platforms like td.win die. 230 is meant to protect forums owners from legal ramifications for what is said by users. Remove 230 and an army of leftist lawyers will start scrubbing freedom off the internet while the socialism media giants go full 1984 and embrace the automatic audit age. Without 230 all public squares on the internet must be run like a publisher. It would be an absolute disaster. Then imagine Biden gets in, and pumps some meth into our hate speach laws. That sounds like paving the way for their endgame. No the issue with 230 is that it broadly defines that moderators can remove "offensive" or "objectionable" content (I forget wich word is used) and still be considered non editorial. We need a clear legal and limited definition of the kind of content that is allowed to be removed by moderators, and then a mandate for transparency if a platform decides to moderate more broadly than those limitations. That would be a good start. We want to force these companies to either be impartial public squares OR clearly define their political biases. We also need some serious regulation to limit the scope and add transparency to ai moderation and content selection. Ai cencorship and ai suppression or promotion of content is defining this information civil war from the shadows and it needs the light of day. I understand your desire to just wipe out these companies but we need to protect freedom first, free speach is the light that shines in the darkness.