WH considering removing Section 230 protections for social media platforms

[AshG]

I don't see this backfiring. Not at all. No siree.

Senators target Section 230 to fight COVID-19 vaccine misinformation

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

uh-huh.

 

[KB5252]

I don't see this backfiring. Not at all. No siree.

Senators target Section 230 to fight COVID-19 vaccine misinformation

So by their logic they would have opened up Facebook to litigation simply for parroting this administrations line about the coronavirus not being lab produced? Then making the same administration the arbiter of truth?

My God we are stepping up to Idiocracy level lunacy!

 

[RikidyBones]

Social media companies wanted their cake and wanted to eat it too. They didn't pick a lane and now, instead of having the ability to claim town square, they'll have to answer to the party that wants control of them. Tough scene.

 

[AshG]

So by their logic they would have opened up Facebook to litigation simply for parroting this administrations line about the coronavirus being lab produced? Then making the same administration the arbiter of truth?

My God we are stepping up to Idiocracy level lunacy!

I don't think anyone in Washington is thinking things through right now. The worst possible place to be is in a reactionary space. I don't think they ran a risk assessment on this at all.

 

[KB5252]

I don't think anyone in Washington is thinking things through right now. The worst possible place to be is in a reactionary space. I don't think they ran a risk assessment on this at all.

Which tells me there is an agenda.

 

[BreatheUT]

Tyranny has no bounds.

 

[Wireless1]

I don't think anyone in Washington is thinking things through right now. The worst possible place to be is in a reactionary space. I don't think they ran a risk assessment on this at all.

Have they in the last 40 years for anything?

 

[ETV]

So by their logic they would have opened up Facebook to litigation simply for parroting this administrations line about the coronavirus not being lab produced? Then making the same administration the arbiter of truth?

My God we are stepping up to Idiocracy level lunacy!

Paging Dr. Lexus.

 

[deezvols]

Meh, social media is one of the worst parts of our society. We’d be better off if they shut down today.

 

[KB5252]

Meh, social media is one of the worst parts of our society. We’d be better off if they shut down today.

I don't disagree but they can't shut it down. It's a huge cash cow and a great political tool/weapon, complete with a sympathetic ownership group. They would be insane to try, better to cultivate it and attempt to give them political cover.