Putt is entitled to just as much section 230 protection as the other social media sites. Absent some smoking gun, I think he meant what he said. I think the site was created not just to allow free speech but to make money off of it. When it became clear that wasn't happening he let it languish and ultimately let it lapse. You'll notice he kept the domain. That and the code and whatever incidentals are his to keep.
If the nigga wanted to make money, fine, but why was there no subscription/donate function? We all TRIED to give (((him))) money, but he wouldn't take it. I'm pretty sure it was a NSA operation to get dirt on counter-revolutionary undesirables, and expect to get my anus expanded in a FEMA camp very soon.
Someone else said they had tried donations before and it only got the site through a few months of costs.
The real reason that I don't think it's the government is because I don't think the government cares to shut down speech and they just want to read it. If they take something down, we just scatter or even get on something harder to track. I feel like the government would take Voat down -- they'd take it over. And not tell anyone.
Precisely, the central niggers to the civil rights movement stopped paying their phone bills and the bell company kept their lines on because the feds wanted to keep the taps live.
Yep, for the same reason cops don't stop open-air narcotics selling. They wanna know which dealers to rip off.
Section 230 protects from private lawsuits not government agencies demanding backdoors and harassing small devs and threatening them with the patriot act, NDAA and extra legal threats.
Something protects them when users upload kiddy porn, or there wouldn't be any of these companies.
Honestly the fbi just isn't as zealous as you want them to be, they are looking for traffickers, actual sex slaves, producers of CP and more significant distributors, if something might pass dost they ignore it and as for distributors of CP there is genuinely a big fbi file hooked to an image analyzing algorithm that they have installed on most sites with over 10k users that checks all images against a local but encrypted cache of known CP. If an 8mage earned a conviction they are more likely to jump at a prosecution. However they are far more interested in never before seen or unreleased CP and even then distributors and viewers are way down their list compared to traffickers and actual producers of CP.
Most of the FBI's budget is spent on stupid shit like watching us.
Anyway they treat CP like piracy, they go after the distributors that are easy to catch first and often ignore the people searching it out for a few reasons, firstly if you scroll by the errant CP post on 4chan you technically have CP downloaded to your computer, same if you searched it out but never actively clicked "save as" on an image or video, the fbi might win in court on such a case but they could lose because you can claim unintentional possession and if they did lose then the ability to intimidate these people into a quick plea deal is lost forever.
As for big tech like I said above leaving up these kiddy porn pages is essentially a honeypot the fbi will fall back on when big fish arent getting caught in the typical nets.
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