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Comment Re:Repealing Section 230 ... (Score 1) 161

Excepting that news organizations, big platforms,... are publishers, and therefore not supposed to be covered by the Section 230 protections. The latter is only supposed to protect the carriers (Comcast, Verizon, T-Mobile,....), who transmit that, given that they're just transmitting that data from the creator to the platforms, and separately, from the platforms to the subscriber.

Suing people/companies for defamation is perfectly legal, and while politicians are not above the law, they're not below it either. Trump can sue any news organization that he thinks defames him, and that news organization can fight it in court, if they so choose. Or if they choose to censor opinions b'cos of how they think Trump will react, that's on them! As for individuals, platforms like Facebook and YouTube (and previously, Twitter under Dorsey) had already shown that they were willing to censor content that ran against the Left, so they can't bitch now if they get sued every now and then for what they allow... or don't

Comment Re:We've done the experiment (Score 4, Insightful) 161

Rather than re-write the law, take a look at who it applies to. It should only apply to the internet service providers, be it Comcast, Charter, Cox, FIOS, or mobile internet carriers like Verizon, T-Mobile or AT&T. It should not apply to the likes of Fakebook, Twitter/X, Alphabet (YouTube) and others, since they do have the prerogative of banning users for any reasons. So opinions hosted on their platforms aren't something they should be shielded from, unless they had an absolute zero censorship policy

Comment Re:Meanwhile in Michigan... (Score 1) 111

The above writeup mentioned New England, Los Angeles and Utah. The first two are both exclusively Democrat run, and Utah is more purple these days. Nothing to stop your queen from putting the kibosh on coal plants in your state. Also, the bulk of coal plants are in states like WV, VA, KY,.... and there was no mention of plants there closing down

Comment Re:Talk about biting the hand hat feeds you. (Score 1) 118

Also, Russia gets its drones from Iran, of all places. It's not like Iran could legally buy semiconductors from US makers. It's probably from China, and therefore, if Kyiv wants to sue anybody, it should be the Chinese manufacturers who sell those parts to Iran to manufacture them for Russia

Comment Re: How is RISC-V better than ARM? (Score 1) 17

I had read that MIPS has pretty much abandoned its ISA in favor of RISC-V. Not a major deal, since only 2 instructions were different. Also, in addition to OpenSparc and OpenPower, ARM itself is "open" in the sense that it can be licensed, after a company pays an upfront membership fee (According to Steve Furber, it was to keep ARM from going into the red).. I daresay one could even do what Cyrix and Centaur, in addition to AMD, used to do in the 90s w/o running afoul of either Intel or AMD ISA patents

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