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Null said:
Many sites will just leave, but remember the individuals who own those sites who are American will still be liable, so to truly leave you'd also have to renounce your citizenship.
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Of course, if not being even remotely subject to American law was enough to escape it, Julian Assange wouldn't have been unlawfully detained for a decade now.
Dante Alighieri said:
I see were doing the whole THE WORLD IS ENDING autistic shit fit every time Trump says something big and always turns out to do nothing or does the reasonable.
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Ah, yes, the good old 'Trump usually does nothing after bombastically claiming he will (which is an average of sometimes doing bad things and never doing good things)' argument. Very sound
 
Angry Shoes said:
Also most faggots proposing we get rid of 230 use super-popular normie sites anyways. They don't care about smaller sites like us.
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AnOminous said:
Which is why they'll destroy us without even thinking about it, because the consequences of their stupidity don't matter enough for them even to care about them at all. They'll just slap a minor regulatory cost on the big boys while killing the little boys outright.
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Funny coming from the same types of people who complain about the "big companies leaving no room for the small guys"
 
Absolute Brainlet said:
Y'know, I'm usually one of the few people in here that tell everyone else to chill out and stop acting like doomer chimps. But now even I am starting to get worried
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I've also always been fairly optimstic, and still am to some extent, mostly because giving in to despair and giving up is no way to live your life. If it's anything to ease the mind, I think if some form of change happens with 230, it at least won't happen for a long while. The government is often pretty slow about making significant changes.
 
Dededon't said:
I've also always been fairly optimstic, and still am to some extent, mostly because giving in to despair and giving up is no way to live your life. If it's anything to ease the mind, I think if some form of change happens with 230, it at least won't happen for a long while. The government is often pretty slow about making significant changes.
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The trick is to just accept the worst case scenario might happen and make personal plans so the negative consquences personally hitting you are minimized. Not like your life is over the second the internet is fucked, just spend now making sure you have at least a small network of personal friends if the internet were to disapeer tomorrow.

Worst case scenario I see a second "underground" internet poping up once the main one is fully fucked.
 
Null said:
Every time Trump tweets this shit, StoneToss reposts this as a reply.

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These people really have no concept of what Section 230 does besides how it insulates Twitter from civil liability and that's all they care about. If they can say "nigger" on Twitter, they would let the water around them boil them alive.
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lol stonetoss beats his meat to "degenerate" trans furry girl paw porn on discord five times a day
 
Why doesn't he just use 230 to fuck with these companies, instead of trying to ruin the internet? Seriously, just have the FTC contact them on the grounds of being a publisher, given the editorializing, then treat every post as their accepted publication. No need tp change anything.
 
HomerSimpson said:
Why doesn't he just use 230 to fuck with these companies, instead of trying to ruin the internet? Seriously, just have the FTC contact them on the grounds of being a publisher, given the editorializing, then treat every post as their accepted publication. No need tp change anything.
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If you're of the conspiratorial mindset it might be due to him getting support from "Uniparty" congresspeople who are nominally Republican. Like Graham and that other retard.

Realistically, it's because he uses the infamous "burn it all down" method of approaching negotiation and doesn't realize the damage it's currently causing in the legislature to the very thing keeping his supporters online.
 
Null said:
Yes. This is legal strongarming, not actually trying to address the issue. It is literally identical in temperment to Greer's lawsuit where he just says "this website says mean things about me, so it shouldn't be protected by CDA Section 230". Twitter deleted two of my tweets today, so revoke 230!
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Why doesnt the president have a cowpage?
 
So, if the worst case scenario comes to pass and the Internet as we know it suffers a metaphorical nuke-would there be a rise of an alternative? How would it function, and who would run it? Would it even be possible?
 
Unpopular opinion: It looks like Trump is trying to get some kind of concession out of the big tech companies by threatening Section 230. Maybe he wants them to quit censoring him and his supporters, I don't know. I just know that all he's stupidly shooting himself in the foot by threatening 230. The boomers with Facebook pages might be cheering him on, but the websites who made the memes the Facebook boomers are spreading will no doubt get hurt as a result of this.
 
ScatmansWorld said:
I guess the closest thing you'll get is the Trump Enslavement Syndrome thread.
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It'd be a life's work Documenting all the wacky hyjinks Trump has ever gotten himself into up until his political career. The Story of Trump-the-lolcow is quite amazing actually. Its like if Moviebob was born into money and then managed to get himself into a situation that reinforced his perception of himself.
ConfederateIrishman said:
Worst case scenario I see a second "underground" internet poping up once the main one is fully fucked.
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Only more insular this time, with cryptographic entrances and requiring that you "know someone" to even get in. Kiwifarms is replacing the FreeMasons.

Ly Erg said:
Because that would lead to a slippery slope for every Politican who has said or done retarded shit.
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I dunno, arguably we already do that with people like Brianna Wu or Carl of Applebees, and just given what a character Trump is and what kind of stupid shit he sometimes gets involved in I think he's a bit different from a boring stiff like Anthony wiener.
 
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furūtsu said:
So, if the worst case scenario comes to pass and the Internet as we know it suffers a metaphorical nuke-would there be a rise of an alternative? How would it function, and who would run it? Would it even be possible?
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If the so-called "dark web" got easier to use and on top of that you had to use it even to talk about shit, it would probably become more popular, especially if it also became edgy and subversive to use it at all, rather than if you even mention it, you must be a drug dealing child pornographer laundering money to support terrorism.
 
LurkTrawl said:
If you're of the conspiratorial mindset it might be due to him getting support from "Uniparty" congresspeople who are nominally Republican. Like Graham and that other retard.

Realistically, it's because he uses the infamous "burn it all down" method of approaching negotiation and doesn't realize the damage it's currently causing in the legislature to the very thing keeping his supporters online.
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Not to mention some of his supporteds are retards encouraging it not realizing that if 230 is repealed, they are banned in a heart beat.
 
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