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I'm curious: What internet freedom advocates? Because the EFF seems to believes in section 230 being a generally good thing. And back during the Christchurch s

I'm curious: What internet freedom advocates? Because the EFF seems to believes in section 230 being a generally good thing. And back during the Christchurch shootings when there were proposed limitations to section 230 to make companies liable for hate speech on their platform, there was an uproar from the internet freedom advocates that this would result in censorship and less free speech.

Simulacra 6y ago
Your curiosity is rewarded: https://disclosurespreview.house.gov/?index=%22lobbying-disclosures%22&size=10&keyword=%22twitter%22&sort=[{%22_score%22:true},{%22field%22:%22registrant.name%22,%22order%22:%22asc%22} https://disclosurespreview.house.gov/?index=%22lobbying-disc...] Gosh what an ugly URL. It's the lobbying reports for Twitter. The biggest internet "freedom" advocates are the paid lobbyists of the tech industry.
threatofrain 6y ago
> Because the EFF seems to believes in section 230 being a generally good thing. Citation for claim? https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230 https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230