Another company for the blacklist. Fuck, that's like all the big publishers, now, isn't it?

Is the fate of every cool video game company to become raging assholes? Is the only way to survive to become the bastards you defeated?

Remember that Activision was founded to give game developers the credit and compensation that Atari refused. When EA started they promoted their developers and artists like they were literal rock stars.

That comment is a bunch of legally ignorant, inarticulate whargarble, but I'll ignore all that because it is like arguing against chemtrails. Instead, I want to bring your attention to this bit:

Social media getting the best deal ever for any kind of platform or publisher

Do you see how he uses the word "get"? They like to frame Section 230 as if it were a gift, given to people by the government. And they talk about it like they're a mafia - "that's a sweet immunity to frivolous lawsuits you got there, it'd be a shame if something were to happen it."

Don't you find it a little off-brand that right-wingers are treating your rights as a gift? And not just a gift, but one contingent on compliance with their demands?

Section 230 was created to shield internet services from frivolous lawsuits, because people had already sued Prodigy and Compuserve for libel, arguing that are responsible for their users' presumably libelous messages, on the pretext that because they moderate undesirable content, they assume the role of a publisher with editorial discretion about what appears on the service.

Only an idiot would agree with that. Why would anyone believe that a message board endorses every message its users post? People's words belong to themselves, and no one is hand-selecting the thousands if not millions of messages that appear on these sites. To consider a message board to be a publisher like a newspaper is a category error. But rather than fix that anachronism of the printing press era, Congress went the easier route and patched the law to quash the moderation argument. They did, after all, have a bug up their butt about obscenity at the time, and we wouldn't want the threat of frivolous lawsuits to hamper the elimination of porn on the Internet, would we?

But because right-wingers are more likely to spout conspiracy theories and racist content, harass people, and do other sorts of anti-social behavior online, they find themselves moderated more frequently. They're so mad about it they're trying to hold the entire Internet hostage. What makes it doubly ridiculous is, if they were successful, it doesn't mean they'll get to say the things they want to, it means the moderation will become far more diligent, because their antics are precisely the kind of content that provokes lawsuits. It's like they are ugly and are cutting off everyone's nose, including their own, because it spites the pretty people more.

Section 230 is not a gift, it is a shield against a gaping failure of existing law. It'd be like calling any protection against copyright and patent trolls a gift, or protection against SLAPP suits a gift. The actual gift is the power the government gives to lawyers to extort people who lack the resources to stop them, and this is the power they're trying to take the chains off.

people should be able to see what politicians say

The orange clown's gibberish was still left there for all to see.

You can have it deleted, or you can have it fact-checked. You can't have neither.

No, you wouldn't, you retard.

And that's the difference between liberals and conservatives. No high ranking liberal politicians would be that stupid, and even if they were, liberals aren't gullible saps like you people.

Time for the government to stomp on them like they did Microsoft.

... and Apple capitulated.

It always takes a thousand words to tell a lie when the truth takes a single sentence. It's what people who believe marketing like an ideology must do constantly. Let's make them more uncomfortable:

They capitulated on fans in chassis. They capitulated on mice with more than one button. They capitulated on being a "PC". They capitulated on apps on the smartphone. They capitulated on skeuomorphism.

Don't worry, they were right about the floppy drive. You'll always have that.

Yeah, but that's totally different because of psuedo-legal wharrgarbl whining about Section 230.

Yes, you are every bit as irrational as the people who lose their shit over culled puppies.

The anti-abortion protester is every bit as hysteric and irrational as the animal rights protester.

I like how the retards who are pissy over Section 230 think that if websites can be sued over user content, the moderation of their racist trolling will somehow end.

No, the moderation policies will become ten times more aggressive, and the social justice ideology that drives you bonkers will be the only controversial opinions allowed. No one will risk being sued because a right-wing terrorist was allowed to speak his mind and no one acted on the warning signs. You are only fucking yourselves and increasing expenses for the tech companies the wokescolds hate more than you do.

It's a good thing Nilay Patel stuck with tech blogging^H^H^H journalism instead of law, because I doubt judges would tolerate that prissy snark from him in court.

You can't even read editorial opinion anymore, much less actual news, because Twitterization has turned everyone who writes for a living into an obnoxious attention whoring twat.

You don't get rich fishing for clever sharks, you get rich harvesting dumb whales.

I suggest that we do everything we can to provoke World War Three. Nuclear winter will solve this real quick.

And what will the rightcels and SJWs do now that their "centrist" bogeyman is taking up their common pet cause?

What a god damned clusterfuck this country has turned into.

We don't do surveillance capitalism, that by definition is surreptitious

No, it's not, you fucking retard.