Some absolutely deranged comments accusing the EFF of being in the pockets of big tech. There are hundreds of threads on EFF topics on HN, and pretty widely I t

Some absolutely deranged comments accusing the EFF of being in the pockets of big tech. There are hundreds of threads on EFF topics on HN, and pretty widely I think the EFF sees enormous support. And I have never seen such bald bold baseless negative accusations hurled about before! Some absolutely wild shit jumping out to try to slander the EFF this time, totally out of the blue! They must really be touching a nerve. Some absolute slime-tastic behavior. Again, never backed up, never substantiated, just broad accusation with no evidence, totally out of the blue. The EFF has said all sorts of anti big tech things. They've had some real energy & excitement for FTC anti Big Tech monopoly action. They'd had data portability / adversarial interoperability arguments. They've argued again and again and again, unflinchingly, for the user. I absolutely cannot believe some of the replies & accusation I'm reading. There are thousands and thousands of comments on EFF matters, and we are seeing waves of absolute deranged insanity the likes of which we have never seen s before. Utterly unmoored positions, with no arguments, no support, just blandly writing off some of the best pro-digital-citizen pro rfc8890 people on the planet as being secretly not what they've seemed for decades. Shame on you, you who would unleash bedlam and madness against this planet! Section 230 is absolutely required for user content to be hosted online. The Wolf of Wall Street, Starton Oakmont, sued Prodigy because they didn't like something that was posted. Prodigy lost, causing or vastly accelerating their downfall. Savvy senator & one of the only people in Congress who understands technology Ron Wyden got 230 added to the DMCA, a fallen awful terrible piece of legislation that's been chipped away at, rolled back, as the one amazing incredibly positive shift, that's on par with Al Gore's work to allow priviitzed use of the internet in allowing online space to become a thing. We would have so little without 230. Shame shame shame on the fools, morons, and know nothing's who would post comments saying it should be withdrawal or repealed; none of us would have a forum to talk about such a thing online, none of us would be commenting at all, without 230. You monsters. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/hip-hip-hooray-hipster-antitrust https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/hip-hip-hooray-hipster... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618135 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/flourishing-internet-depends-competition https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/flourishing-internet-d...