Comment Re:Conservative hypocrisy (Score 1) 132
hey really are not playing by what many people, including me, think is the main spirit of 230
What you, me and others think is the main spirit of 230 matters very little, it all boils down to what the creators of section 230 envisioned.
They are hiding behind the "Good Samaritan" portion to push agendas of their own, silencing valid dissent and diversity of thought and at the same time claiming they are not.
Can you give specific examples of valid dissent, diversity and thought that have been silenced and how widespread that is with factual data? Unless there is an actual measuring stick that can be factually evaluated for this behavior all we have are anecdotes, and when it comes the moderation of billions of posts daily how often does it go awry and can we distinguish this from actual "malice"?
The debate about social media and moderation are so muddled because there's a lot of people who think they are entitled to an audience regardless of their message and they are curiously extremely "loud" when they think someone stepped on their entitlement. Add to that we have others who loudly complain not enough is done to something about people they don't like. Add politicians to this mix, all of them with their own agenda to drum up political support it all becomes a huge fucking mess.
The simple solution is to let the market sort itself out, some social media will succeed and some will not, and we just have to accept that in some places we can't say certain things so we move somewhere else where we can. Letting politicians dictate how discourse on the internet should be conducted is something I at least want to avoid like the plague, because no good will come of it.
Just look at how the Twitter-files actually lead to some state-governments making bills about regulating speech on the internet as an reaction to the government making suggestions to social media about content. It's fucking stupid in the extreme, it's like saying "you can't do that, let us create laws that does that!".
If you want a real world example of the former, look no longer than to the Missouri and Louisiana AG's, who are suing the Biden administration for the alleged "pressuring social media sites how they should moderate", but these AG's are also suing social media sites because they don't moderate enough to make it "safe for children". How the fuck do we reconcile that? Those with political asperations and the internet Karens will of course trot out the old tired excuse of "think of the children" as why it must be done, fuck the 1A.