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BREAKING: Twitter Censors Trump By Completely Removing His Tweets For First Time - The Donald - America First(thedonald.win)

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Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 3 years ago

I’m afraid we’d see far less freedom of expression. Everybody who operates a site would be liable for comments and content posed by users. Only companies with deep pockets and the ability to screen would be feasible. It’d be as if the entire Internet were a particularly censorious AOL.

230 is the best thing that ever happened to the Internet.

One_Jack_Move 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 3 years ago

Couldn't websites just not censor content at all? Except for illegal stuff of course.

Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 3 years ago

The situation on illegal acts won’t really change. Sites like Facebook are liable if they don’t take reasonable steps to prevent criminal activity. The difference is that without 230 there is no inherent protection against civil suits. If you libel somebody on Facebook then it would be as if they were a publisher. The same would apply to sites like Saidit, Kiwi Farms, or BitChute.

As much as I despise social media, I don’t need to use them or care about what they do. I have alternatives. I’d like to keep them.