Regarding the apparent and imminent repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and the future of this website.

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Too lazy to read through all 49 pages of this thread so I don't know if someone already suggested this but someone who definitely is not Josh should continue to run Kiwi Farms through Tor. There would be no illegal porn or drug sales so the government probably wouldn't care. Let the lawyers and retards pee themselves and cry. Is there something I'm not accounting for in this scenario?
 
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InsolentGaylord said:
Boohoo, at least big tech won't be able to spread their globohomo garbage and make everything worse.

It's a tolerable sacrifice.
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I see this post is getting a lot of negrates, but it's unironically true. Mark "The Plastic Man" Zuckerborg and Jack "Faggot Rasputin" Dorsey would be completely BTFO by a Section 230 repeal, which would make them publishers and thus wholly responsible for their users' content. The sudden administrative burden of having to check over ALL of their users' posts for potentially libelous or damaging content would fuck them HARD. This means that they would no longer be able to get away with "curating" their platforms to be antagonistic towards certain kinds of speech while implicitly allowing others. Both Twitter and Facebook have a noticeable left-wing bias, in that they allow left-wingers and BLM/Antifa types to make all sorts of threatening remarks without consequence, but censor right-wingers for saying things that are a fraction as offensive.

Though it would sadly spell the end of old-school forums as we know them, a Section 230 repeal would accelerate the rise of peer-to-peer communications protocols while utterly destroying centralized social media. Things like IPFS, Mastodon, et cetera, would fill the void left behind by Silicon Valley's wannabe dictatorships, and with people solely responsible for their own content on P2P networks, free speech would flourish.



A decentralized, censorship-proof, distributed internet would also BTFO China's Great Firewall. If a copy of a site can slip behind the firewall over VPN or Sneakernet, it can be redistributed on the other side.

So, yes, there are huge drawbacks to a Section 230 repeal, but it also has the potential to be an eventual win for free speech in the long run.
 
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I don't see the fucking point of this. If this means that you can sue twitter for getting banned then the only thing that will happen is that twitter's right to ban you will have the force of law behind it once their lawyers get through withy ou. A complete repeal is utterly asinine and would destroy the internet, obviously, and only serves to announce a state of permanent lawfare among tech companies where only the biggest can survive.

Jimjamflimflam said:
Whats the migration plan for everyone else?
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I'll probably just spend less time online, to be honest. Nowadays I only regularly check kf, /pol/, some youtubers, and a handful of twitter accounts, but really not much else. I didn't grow up on the internet, but I did grow up with it, and watched it transform from a part-time hobby for eccentrics and hobbyists into a full-fledged facet of life run by governments and big corporations. It's not what it used to be and there's no bringing it back. There's no fight to be had. Better to just focus on other areas of life.
 
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(not) y2k compliant said:
Welp, here we are.
More retards on here then not shit talked Null, me, and the few others that were pointing out the importants of 230 weeks back. Short sited shit like "How dare you talk bad about God Emperor, you support the left now?" and "Don't you want to own Jack Dorcy?" when all those involved, left and right, want to see it gone.
I've largely tried to be a even handed poster on here, but most of you are useful idiots you fucking retards, and you're too fucking dumb to even see it.
Get fucked you jackasses.
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Comrade, are you saying you don't want to own Jack Dorsey?
Also how dare you talk shit about Cheeto Man, what are you a leftie?
Leftie begone!
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Drain Todger said:
I see this post is getting a lot of negrates, but it's unironically true. Mark "The Plastic Man" Zuckerborg and Jack "Faggot Rasputin" Dorsey would be completely BTFO by a Section 230 repeal, which would make them publishers and thus wholly responsible for their users' content. The sudden administrative burden of having to check over ALL of their users' posts for potentially libelous or damaging content would fuck them HARD. This means that they would no longer be able to get away with "curating" their platforms to be antagonistic towards certain kinds of speech while implicitly allowing others. Both Twitter and Facebook have a noticeable left-wing bias, in that they allow left-wingers and BLM/Antifa types to make all sorts of threatening remarks without consequence, but censor right-wingers for saying things that are a fraction as offensive.

Though it would sadly spell the end of old-school forums as we know them, a Section 230 repeal would accelerate the rise of peer-to-peer communications protocols while utterly destroying centralized social media. Things like IPFS, Mastodon, et cetera, would fill the void left behind by Silicon Valley's wannabe dictatorships, and with people solely responsible for their own content on P2P networks, free speech would flourish.



A decentralized, censorship-proof, distributed internet would also BTFO China's Great Firewall. If a copy of a site can slip behind the firewall over VPN or Sneakernet, it can be redistributed on the other side.

So, yes, there are huge drawbacks to a Section 230 repeal, but it also has the potential to be an eventual win for free speech in the long run.
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stick to running an HO gauge trainset you fucking sperg
 
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BoingBoingBoi said:
I'll probably just spend less time online, to be honest. Nowadays I only regularly check kf, /pol/, some youtubers, and a handful of twitter accounts, but really not much else. I didn't grow up on the internet, but I did grow up with it, and watched it transform from a part-time hobby for eccentrics and hobbyists into a full-fledged facet of life run by governments and big corporations. It's not what it used to be and there's no bringing it back. There's no fight to be had. Better to just focus on other areas of life.
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Its nice to just shitpost and get some general topics with other like minded people. I don't use reddit/facebook/twitter so thats out. The other option is to find another forum but all the unifying themes are things that don't interest me. Cars? Tropical Fishes? Pop Culture? Games? Not likely to have the similar minded people I want to bullshit with. The theme here was the lolcows that attracted a interesting group of people but honestly I spend more time in the other subforums instead. It will be hard to find group of people.
 
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