Twitter Hides POTUS Tweet

[Bland Crumbs]

Is this whole thing a deep state op to get Drumpf to finally crush Jersh??? Prolly.

 

[Tim Buckley]

Also, I understand the extent of the situation here and how it would really fuck up Josh as well as pretty much every single other site on the internet, especially pirating sites, HOWEVER

If this turns out to be a complete nothingburger, I will LAUGH SO HARD. I will meme this fucking thread so brutally. I will take screenshots of this thread and hang it on my "Wall of Gay" next and glue dildos on it. This better actually be a HABBENING, I want some enjoyable stuff to come out of this.

Yeah I fucking hope so, I wish the unavoidable distopia to start as late as possible.

 

[Nobunaga]

Null's reaction, while reasonable and justified, will be funny in the near future if this turns out to be a nothingburger.

This has a 90% chance of turning into the jogger thread 2.0, and i cant wait to laught when trump gets bored of this dick messuring contest with jack

 

[Coleslaw]

The internet was fine before* 230 and it will likely be fine after.

This idea that it will allow the US government to kill the internet is overblown imo. There no practical way to enforce it (just look at all the failed attempts to censor the internet in the UK and China) and there's no motivation to enforce it (the US government isn't going to spend a fortune chasing no-name internet forums in foreign countries).

There's the obvious loop hole of allowing false flaggers to run rampant. Want a site shut down? Create some offending post and report them to the US government. The government would soon get sick of having to do lengthy trials against every site that Twitter checkmarks don't like.

So even in the worst case scenario where small forums disappear and big tech cracks down on everything and anything, I doubt that state would last very long unless the US government criminalizes all internet.

*I don't know when 230 was made so it could be something that predates the internet and was modified over time, in which case it can continue to be modified.

Reminder that John Perry Barlow and the OG Internet freedom fighters literally fought against CDA.

 

[inception_state]

Oh, he's going to get it, there is nothing more the 6 megacorp internet giants wants and dems want too. It's all part of the "program".

Can you imagine how much it would cost Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to manually review even a fraction of their content? Right now they get by mostly with piece of shit automated systems thanks to being shielded from liability if they screw up. If they could actually get sued for content they hosted, they'd have to spend real money on proper content review. Why the heck would they want that over the current system, where they can be arbitrary, incompetent, and cheap with zero consequences?

 

[General Disarray]

Well, different category. That's clearly in the scope of reporting. Trump, on the other hand, is making a threat. But the threat is clearly to quell illegal action (looting), and can't sanely be considered "glorifying violence".

Didn't a lot of streams of the riots last night go down because Youtube claimed it was recording illegal content or some such? It's so confusing even for someone who does spend a lot of time on the Internet to know just how their standards are applied (that includes most all popular social media platforms).

 

[Rotollo]

>Null sells the site to KimdotCom for pennies due to shit
would be funny not gonna lie

 

[Desktop User2]

Also, I understand the extent of the situation here and how it would really fuck up Josh as well as pretty much every single other site on the internet, especially pirating sites, HOWEVER

If this turns out to be a complete nothingburger, I will LAUGH SO HARD. I will meme this fucking thread so brutally. I will take screenshots of this thread and hang it on my "Wall of Gay" next and glue dildos on it. This better actually be a HABBENING, I want some enjoyable stuff to come out of this.

Yeah, sure. It´s completely normal for a president to go in a tweetstorm not implying but actually saying he will repeal or work to repeal some foundational protection for the internet. You know, it just shows mental fortitude and stability. Even better it´s to do it after stringing along your base for 3+ years on that promise and just acting when it affected directly you - it just show how connected to your plight he really is, completely unselfish. I can´t think on a better guy to depend on regarding freedom and stability. That´s why TRUMP IS MY PRESIDANT

 

[Angry Shoes]

2021: Getting a good VPN and using Tor to call someone gay on the computer.

 

[MadDamon]

Feel free to rate this optimistic, but my guess is that Trump is mostly sabre-rattling here. In order to actually repeal Section 230, he'd have to get bipartisan support in Congress. Between "Orange Man Bad" and Silicon Valley spending more money on lobbying than Wall Street, that's basically never going to happen.

The EO potentially lets him use the near-infinite power of government lawyers and red tape to screw with companies that particularly annoy him though, so Jack has probably painted a target on Twitter's back.

I think Null isn't really that scared of Trump actually pulling it off, but is dumpfounded that so many people support mass censorship ifit is pushed by Trump while screeching about the evil left taking their right of freespeech(which is sometime true).

 

[Return of the Freaker]

What's so funny about it?

Remember how hard jersh sperged in the Sulemani thread about how Drumpf had just sent us to war for Israel and it was game over?

 

[Superman93]

The internet was fine before* 230 and it will likely be fine after.

Section 230 was implemented in the 90's. The internet was no where near this level of important back then. And even back then prior to this law people were still catching lawsuits left and right.

Is it possible to have to some modification to the bill where if the host in question is removing or editorializing political speech or statements they loose their 230 protections? And if so, why only stop at political speech? Why not just general freedom of expression?

I'm extremely worried about this because this isn't the first time Trump has done something incredibly stupid when it comes to the internet. I'm hoping its a nothingburger and he's just stirring shit up for the sake of stirring shit up.

 

[Pepito The Cat]

There's something I don't understand. If Trupm repels 230, doesn't it hurt his own tweets as well? Given the ammount of shitpost he amasses, wouldn't he just say some stupid bullshit, someone (or probably everyone) would sue Twitter for his posts and force the platform to censor him even further or face liability? This is like shooting yourself in the foot trying to get a bug off your boot.

 

[WhiteLivesMatter]

Null is cucked for blaming God Emperor Trump, and not the SJW management of twitter who defied the freedom of the speech of our President.

Trump 2020

 

[KingCoelacanth]

Also, I understand the extent of the situation here and how it would really fuck up Josh as well as pretty much every single other site on the internet, especially pirating sites, HOWEVER

If this turns out to be a complete nothingburger, I will LAUGH SO HARD. I will meme this fucking thread so brutally. I will take screenshots of this thread and hang it on my "Wall of Gay" next and glue dildos on it. This better actually be a HABBENING, I want some enjoyable stuff to come out of this.

Trump is threatening to nuke the internet, any rational person would take this seriously, regardless if it has high chances of being a nothingburger.
Its like when a student writes a fake bomb threat in a school bathroom to get classes cancelled, yeah it very likely could be nothing, but you absolutely have to take it seriously, evacuate the kids, call in the authorties, etc etc

 

[Ivan Shatov]

It'll be interesting to see how many lawsuits get filed now against some of these platforms.

Wait for it to clear the FCC. Anything that happens will depend entirely on the definition of online platform.

I'm pretty confident Ajit Pai can keep the decision above board and come up with something that respects the original intent of the law and curbs some of the abuses.

That said, government is a series of levers and pulleys, decisions people make now decide what their next job will be. Entirely possible this gets steered by career interests and contributions to non-profits.

 

[crocodilian]

TRUST THE PLAN WW1WGA

I'm not sure if you're doing a routine, but your replies ITT look a lot like the sort of people this website was made to mock.

As mentioned earlier,

That will never happen. He's saying outlandish things to scare Jack Dorsey and get Paul Singer's attention.

The actual policy agenda is contained in the EO.

I mean, maybe I'm wrong, maybe he's planning another EO repealing Section 230 in its entirety. Which simultaneously destroys the chief communication channels for his reelection campaign, immediately eliminates $2.2 T from the US GDP, puts him at war with people like Peter Thiel, and alienates everyone in America under 70. Sounds plausible.

It's incredibly unlikely the president is going to somersault through the several dozen legal hoops necessary just to appeal Section 230, especially when anyone (particularly his younger voting base) can tell him that's not a very good idea. He's threatening Twitter to demonstrate what could happen if they don't play ball. He's done this in the past with geopolitics, now he's trying it with domestic media companies. Remember when he was "going to kill net neutrality"?

 

[CIA Nigger]

Can you imagine how much it would cost Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to manually review even a fraction of their content? Right now they get by mostly with piece of shit automated systems thanks to being shielded from liability if they screw up. If they could actually get sued for content they hosted, they'd have to spend real money on proper content review. Why the heck would they want that over the current system, where they can be incompetent and cheap with zero consequences?

Facebook has real content moderators and that's why there were a million Verge articles about the trials and tribulations of being a janitor for Facebook.

 

[Caverlock]

If KiwiFarms ever shuts down, I'm going to tell people I was in the trenches since the beginning and made a lot of valuable contributions.

 

[ddlloo]

Yeah, sure. It´s completely normal for a president to go in a tweetstorm not implying but actually saying he will repeal or work to repeal some foundational protection for the internet. You know, it just shows mental fortitude and stability. Even better it´s to do it after stringing along your base for 3+ years on that promise and just acting when it affected directly you - it just show how connected to your plight he really is, completely unselfish. I can´t think on a better guy to depend on regarding freedom and stability. That´s why TRUMP IS MY PRESIDANT

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