I don't know why people think repealing this will help things. From the right-wing perspective, where they feverishly imagine they are being censored, it would obviously make twitter/facebook/etc... completely clamp down on anything even vaguely libelous/slanderous/dangerous. It would increase, not decrease, censorship.
From the left wing, they may be happy with less disinformation and "harassment", but they will be sad when their own disinformation and harassment is also blocked.
It's just bizarre to me as an old fogey remembering in the 90's when nerds were 100% scared to death of the govt stepping in to regulate things, now because of politics people on both sides are begging for them to do it.
It's not bizarre at all. If regulation has to be had, you want it to be sensible. I don't LIKE paying taxes, but if I have to, I want it done in an intelligent way. I don't LIKE social distancing laws, but if I have to wear a mask and can't travel to other states during this spike, I want it enforced intelligently so I'm not wasting my time. The tech companies realize that self-regulation is not cutting it, so it's better to write regulations they can live with rather than letting the idiots in congress
In 1999, I never could have fathomed the power that billions of people could read something I wrote if it was viral enough.
Sure you did:) Every single time you posted a message to usenet, it told you "This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing. Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [y / n]"
CDA 230.. (Score:2)
I don't know why people think repealing this will help things. From the right-wing perspective, where they feverishly imagine they are being censored, it would obviously make twitter/facebook/etc... completely clamp down on anything even vaguely libelous/slanderous/dangerous. It would increase, not decrease, censorship.
From the left wing, they may be happy with less disinformation and "harassment", but they will be sad when their own disinformation and harassment is also blocked.
It also raises a constitutio
We want the right regulation (Score:5, Insightful)
It's just bizarre to me as an old fogey remembering in the 90's when nerds were 100% scared to death of the govt stepping in to regulate things, now because of politics people on both sides are begging for them to do it.
It's not bizarre at all. If regulation has to be had, you want it to be sensible. I don't LIKE paying taxes, but if I have to, I want it done in an intelligent way. I don't LIKE social distancing laws, but if I have to wear a mask and can't travel to other states during this spike, I want it enforced intelligently so I'm not wasting my time. The tech companies realize that self-regulation is not cutting it, so it's better to write regulations they can live with rather than letting the idiots in congress
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In 1999, I never could have fathomed the power that billions of people could read something I wrote if it was viral enough.
Sure you did :) Every single time you posted a message to usenet, it told you "This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing. Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [y / n]"
Re:We want the right regulation (Score:2)
I don't know what service you were using, but none of the services I used ever said that....or anything similar.