Nvm, after reading up on wikipedia it seems 230 does both things, protect against content by users, and protect against civil suits by users who had content removed.

Isn't it that content providers cannot be held liable for any content posted by it's users ?

Afaik (ianal) censoring objectionable content isn't an issue since it's the content provider's platform and they get to decide what goes on it or not?

Damn, I didn't know Voldemort got elected, got more Harry Potter trivia ?

Tree Style Tab, Tab Session Manager, Multiple Tab Handler
Noscript, AdBlock, Ghostery, Privacy Badger, uBlock origin
LastPass
GreaseMonkey
DownThemAll, GrabAnyMedia

Just those 3 first lines make my shiver in horror about using any other browser, and I know some features can be mimicked in other browsers, but nothing comes close to my FF experience. On average my browser has about 500 tabs open, sorted in topics that I have researched in the past and want to keep around to not have to search the same sources again, Tree-style descent showing the trail of pages and sources you went through on different topics. I have edge chrome and opera installed and use them from time to time, but I'll be damned if I switch over from Firefox anytime soon.

"especially companies that provide their products at no direct charge to consumers."

Facebook, Google, ... charge their customers (advertisers) plenty, just not it's 'average user'

If there's no charge, you're not the customer, you're the product.

I've seen lot's of people make claims about lift capabilities and return trip vehicles.
But as far as I know, there is just one force that is working against us here ... Gravity ...

Too bad the LHC hasn't given us any more clues so far, but the way I see it, conquering gravity will cause the biggest technological advancement in human history.
What if we discover that gravity is quite controllable ?
Say you can generate some sort of anti gravity field like we see in some S/F.

I'm not exactly a physics expert, but iirc, the higgs-boson is supposed to react with some sort of field, and the result is gravity ?
Develop some sort of field generator that insulates the higgs-boson so it can't react ?
Or even generate our own field causing our own little gravity well that is giving us momentum due to the created gravity ?

The latter probably won't work due to the same reasons a magnet in front of your car doesn't work ?
But it might be able to project the gravity well a certain distance away from the vehicle, and re-projecting it once the vehicle is close enough ?
Once you're working in space even small forms of momentum generation is going to get you to high speeds eventually ..

This will change the way we think about any form of transportation / building.
No more problems with lift capabilities, generate a field to neutralize the mass / gravity, and you just need a tiny engine to give it momentum.


Oh, and btw, cudos to hawking for pressing this matter again and again.
Our existence on this earth is much more fragile then people would like to believe, it's about damned time some figureheads speak up.

But as long as we keep thinking as nations / races / religions, instead of realizing we're all human, we ain't going nowhere.

Since most decent sites i've seen rely on torrents, and not on specific software for that site only, it would be a very useless attempt ^^
Everyone would just stick to torrent sites, as most are doing now anyways :)
It gives you freedom of choice for software, platform, etc, so why trust a shade site that requires some 'special' software ?

Not to mention the fact that getting caught with this would be a serious scandal imho, even if the mp3 police denies any involvement, IANAL but I would expect this to have serious legal repercussions for media defender at least