For a brief period of time Twitter was revealing the IP address locations of users and virtually every right wing influencer was located in Russia or Pakistan with a smattering of them in India.

Surprisingly I don't think they were very many out of China.

These were accounts pretending to be Americans to incite Americans into right-wing politics.

And there were a *lot* of them.

I don't think I would give up internet anonymity for the sake of shutting down those accounts. And besides it would only be a matter of time before they fired up vpns. And I don't think I would give up free access to vpns for the same reason.

But I understand why countries outside of America are looking at doing just that. They see what's happening over here and they don't know what to do about it.

I would rather see more education and teaching critical thinking but especially in America we can't have that. If you start teaching kids how to think critically they are going to point the skills at whatever sacred cows their parents have and that gets really unpopular really fast especially with religious texts.

Do you live in a city?

And that's not meaningful growth. It doesn't make more stuff or more services or make life better for anyone it just replaces jobs.

Are the kind of people who are upset that they can't use the n-word in public and who knowingly voted for Trump the rapist because they think it should be legal to fuck kids. So really I don't pay much mind to those people because they're weird little fuckers and best case scenario they will become irrelevant and worst case scenario we're all going to die in a global Firestorm of nuclear fire caused by those idiots handing the launch codes to religious lunatics because they're upset somebody said happy holidays...

It's not a product it's there to replace wages. The potential payoff is in the trillions so a little bit of short-term expenditure is fine, most of which you will pay for it because there are only a handful of companies left after decades of mega mergers and illegal antitrust violations that were not enforced.

The billionaires have had it with capitalism. Mark my words. They are done with capitalism and they are done with consumers and they are done with us.

I get it you want to say the n word and you want to do it without getting banned or modded down. And you know the way things are going if your side wins you'll get the Say the n-word as much as you want.

But they're going to take your house and the pills to keep you alive. They're not just going to let you be a racist piece of shit on the internet they're going to take your property away from you. And they're going to do worse to your kids and your grandkids not that you care...

I'm not telling you this because I think it'll change your mind. You are too poisoned in the brain to do anything but be an asshole anymore.

I'm telling you this because I want to put it in your head like a worm that's going to eat your brain alive like a certain Health and human services head. You know what you're doing and you know it's eventually going to backfire and you know that unless you're at least 65 years old you're not going to drop dead before it does.

So you know damn well that the internet is nothing like a mother fucking newspaper. But your troll and a racist so this is all about you getting to be your worst possible person as much as possible. And I'm telling you you're not going to get away with that. The billionaires will take all your property just to take it. Good luck dying before that happens because that's literally the only thing that can save your fat stinking ass

Also could you please stop putting rapists in the White House? Thanks

And the rest of the world follows. If the United States does the way with free speech on the Internet by killing section 230 then Europe will follow. And it's Europe that you're talking about because China does not have free speech on the internet and in many African countries they will literally kill you if you're gay.. although in their defense Americans went over there and lobbied for the laws that give death penalties for being gay...

The United States falling to fascism is going to take the rest of the world with it. Eventually we will hand nuclear launch codes to the religious lunatics and Chisto fascists and then that's game over for the human race...

It's not a product it's capital. It's not something they sell even to businesses it's something you own and use for your own purposes. AKA capital.

AI exists to solve the problem of paying wages. Because of that it doesn't need to be profitable it just needs to serve the needs of the people who own it, billionaires.

I think this is a difficult idea for people to wrap their heads around because what's happening here is capitalism is going away and since we all grew up being told that capitalism is immutable and the only viable economic system the idea that it would be dismantled and replaced with something else is nonsensical.

25% unemployment got us World War II. AI is going to cause at least that much. If you think there are going to be new jobs sit down and try to list them. You can't. The economy can't adapt this fast.

The reason I bring it up is there is a lot of old people who think they are going to get away from this mess unscathed. So they think they can sit back and watch everything collapse around them.

It's painfully obvious billionaires have had enough of capitalism. But socialism is absolutely not on the table. So with capitalism collapsing and socialism not an option what now?

And we better figure it out fast because the billionaires already have their solution which is techno feudal dystopia.

Good luck getting medical Care in that collapsing economy and civilization. The pills keeping you alive or going to become unavailable. You'll be lucky if you have food and enough heating oil to get through a winter

Because at least they're not directly to blame. What pisses me off are the people who are complicit.

It's mostly people over 50 who have the I got mine fuck you attitude. The kind of people who are angry they can't use the n word in public anymore.

A convicted felon with 28 credible rape accusations couldn't be president without complicity from a large group of people. Without willing participation

It's so weird that when I was a kid the Left had "Save the Whales!!" bumper stickers and now it's the Right-Conservationists.

They even dedicated Star Trek IV to the cause.

Maybe if the whale killers get reinstated we'll at least get case law to prohibit permitting denials for Integral Fast Reactors and that can at least clean up the Boomers' nuclear waste to protect the ecosystem long term.

The entire point of section 230 is that the internet is not a traditional publishing system and therefore it should not be treated like one.

Section 230 is not common carrier. Anyone telling you that it is is trying to eliminate it.

A whole bunch of trolls and assholes are jonesing for the idea that they can have the internet treated as common carrier and spread their nonsense troll posts without any consequences. That is the only organic support for what you're describing that exists.

Common carrier is for phone lines not for the internet. The entire reason we have a separate law is because the Internet is different. It is an entirely new medium that required entirely new rules without which it doesn't exist.

If we did what you're describing then the internet turns into cable TV.

It has been repeatedly demonstrated that rules do not apply to Trump or the Republican party.

This would only eliminate dissenting opinions from the center and left. The right wing is heavily backed by billionaires and could shrug off any lawsuits or problems.

Watching the ruling class exert their power in such a naked and obvious fashion these last couple of years.

In America the last election cycle I watched as sane washing became a thing and anyone that criticized Donald Trump in the media got fired.

And now with AI over and over again I keep seeing just a giant middle finger from the ruling class and the billionaires that make up the ruling class.

So they take all the electronics from us and all the electricity in the water and they build data centers that cause tons of problems and if we don't like it and tell them no they just have the state government order us to fuck off and build the data centers anyway.

And now I get to watch them basically take over education.

Remember the only problem AI solves is paying wages. It's not a product and it's not a solution to anything you want. We already had machine learning algorithms for the science stuff what we call AI is just there so that the guys at the top don't have to pay you anymore.

Dirty Little secret of the American ruling class is that they hate capitalism. They hate competition and they hate consumers. And remember you're a consumer so that means they hate you

Without the ability to protect platforms you will see an immediate chilling effect as hyper aggressive moderation kicks off on the large platforms who can't weather lawsuits.

Billionaires have decided they have had enough of capitalism. They have had enough competition they have had enough of paying wages and they are absolutely sick and fucking tired of consumers.

So there is a huge multi-prong push to break down any system of competition and this is part of it. The billionaire owned platforms of course will be able to navigate and survive in a post section 230 world but any potential competitor of course won't.

So say goodbye to competition and alternatives and say hello to a cable TV style system owned by approximately 6 or 7 billionaires.

All of your information will be vetted by them and they're algorithms.

On the other hand for a brief moment you will be able to say the n word on Reddit so I guess the total collapse of our economic and social systems will be worth it...