Section 230 protects a service provider from liabilities that arise from what people say and post on said service. Section 230 basically says "you are not the free speech police and as such are not responsible for what people say."
Now what happens when you remove this protection? You are saying to tech firms "You ARE the free speech police and if you fail to police the speech of your users you can be sued for what people are saying on your platform."
People seem to think that "removing Section 230" will end big tech censorship but it will be the exact opposite. Removing Section 230 will in fact REQUIRE tech firms to censor. If a user drops an f-bomb the platform can be sued for distributing adult content without the proper age rating being displayed. If a user uses the N-word the platform can be prosecuted fro hate speech. The platform will have to censor out of self protection. Worse still however, when the tech firm assumes the role of editor, they can now change, modify or delete any content they want... it is no longer your voice; it is now their voice and they can make it say what ever they want.
But wait! There's more! Now anyone who hosts a forum or any form of social media will be obligated to implement moderators, fact checkers and editors to review, edit and approve all user content. Why? Because if they don't some shill will post some bad words and the FCC will issue a huge fine. Only giant tech monopolies will have the resources to moderate content and hence they will be the only ones that are allowed to host user generated content. Goodby Poal.co. Good by to all of the chans... Facebook and twitter will be the only options.
It still gets worse though... mark my words. Big tech will paint themselves the savior of free speech rather than it's executioner. Big tech will rise to the challenge of saving on line public discussion and will roll out AI driven content moderation tools that all of the 'little guys' can use to avoid being sued and fined out of business. And just like that we will have one centralized algorithm that will moderate all speech on the internet.
Trump has been promising to drain the swamp for 4 years but he has only been controlled opposition all along. It did not happen for Easter, it did not happen in the summer. There was no 10 days of darkness and it is not going to happen on Jan 6.
Go look up the Color Revolution Playbook and realize that a stolen election is part of the plan. 4-D chess is being played but trump is only a pawn.
Section 230 protects a service provider from liabilities that arise from what people say and post on said service. Section 230 basically says "you are not the free speech police and as such are not responsible for what people say."
Now what happens when you remove this protection? You are saying to tech firms "You **ARE** the free speech police and if you fail to police the speech of your users you can be sued for what people are saying on your platform."
People seem to think that "removing Section 230" will end big tech censorship but it will be the exact opposite. Removing Section 230 will in fact **REQUIRE** tech firms to censor. If a user drops an f-bomb the platform can be sued for distributing adult content without the proper age rating being displayed. If a user uses the N-word the platform can be prosecuted fro hate speech. The platform will have to censor out of self protection. Worse still however, when the tech firm assumes the role of editor, they can now change, modify or delete any content they want... it is no longer your voice; it is now **their** voice and they can make it say what ever they want.
But wait! There's more! Now anyone who hosts a forum or any form of social media will be obligated to implement moderators, fact checkers and editors to review, edit and approve all user content. Why? Because if they don't some shill will post some bad words and the FCC will issue a huge fine. Only giant tech monopolies will have the resources to moderate content and hence they will be the only ones that are allowed to host user generated content. Goodby Poal.co. Good by to all of the chans... Facebook and twitter will be the only options.
It still gets worse though... mark my words. Big tech will paint themselves the savior of free speech rather than it's executioner. Big tech will rise to the challenge of saving on line public discussion and will roll out AI driven content moderation tools that all of the 'little guys' can use to avoid being sued and fined out of business. And just like that we will have one centralized algorithm that will moderate all speech on the internet.
Trump has been promising to drain the swamp for 4 years but he has only been controlled opposition all along. It did not happen for Easter, it did not happen in the summer. There was no 10 days of darkness and it is not going to happen on Jan 6.
Go look up the Color Revolution Playbook and realize that a stolen election is part of the plan. 4-D chess is being played but trump is only a pawn.
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