Donald Trump
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Trump is threatening to veto a major defense bill unless Congress repeals Section 230 AKA the "safe harbor" provision of the Communications Act governing the internet.
https://apnews.com/article/donal…
This is very dangerous and unfortunately a lot of people have now gotten the wrong idea about what Section 230 is. They think repealing it will safeguard free speech and prevent Twitter from censoring conservatives or something. When in reality it's what allows user-generated sites to exist in the first place. The EFF explains it well here:
https://www.eff.org/issues/cda23…
I'm not sure if Trump's motivations go beyond Twitter slapping disclaimers on his lies and conspiracy theories (he still gets treated better than the average user who would have been banned about a hundred times by now).
But repealing 230 would be a huge giveaway to big corporations. Wouldn't be surprising if big media companies close to Trump such as News Corp are pushing for this behind the scenes.
- The Grift that keeps on Grifting.utopian
- This is a big deal. He can never have it repealed, but the idea that he wants to is so outrageous we should all be furious.monospaced
- This would allow an individual to sue QBN for the appearance of hate speech, for example. Think about that.monospaced
- Yeah exactly...and sites would potentially be liable for any copyrighted content posted by a user. Which if you think about it describes a huge amount of whatyuekit
- is posted on any social media site. People are constantly uploading stuff they don't technically have the right to, something as simple as a stupid meme imageyuekit
- or animated gif on your Facebook feed could become an issue.yuekit
- Imagine being so bitter that you want to sue Twitter for millions and millions of people exercising free speech ridiculing you. He wants to repeal the amendmentmonospaced