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Similar laws are being written elsewhere, Section 230 may not last the next few years. It's not just the UK.
by hexator 2y ago
Similar laws are being written elsewhere, Section 230 may not last the next few years. It's not just the UK.
- gotoeleven 2y agoWell the attacks on section 230 from the right are about removing censorship not adding censorship so I'm not sure section 230 is a good comparison.
- hexator 2y agoYou mean moderation. People are freaking out because they were banned from places for saying awful shit. Removing section 230 removes the right to moderation, which would kill the internet as we know it. It would become like cable internet. EFF summary on Section 230: https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230 https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230
- throwaway48476 2y agoModeration wouldn't disappear, it would just become controlled by the user.
- hexator 2y agoYes, it would. Any site offering moderation capabilities of any kind would be open to legal attack. That is enough to make it infeasible for any smaller site to have moderation, unless they're big tech of course (which is why they're OK with this)
- throwaway48476 2y agoThere's no reason moderation couldn't happen on the users machine.