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

[pareidolia]

Null, I respect standing up for your principles to a point but you are being a retard. If you really want to act like "muh 30s male breadwinner", then censor some gamer words and run some fucking ads. How is throwing away a growing self-owned business and becoming a Serbian cubicle drone going to help you provide for a family? How is working at some massive faceless corporation going to let you be truer to your principles than applying light censorship to a site you own and control?

If there's no future post-230 where a site you want to run can exist, then you will either be running a site you don't want to run or working for someone else who runs a site you wouldn't want to run. In the former scenario you get more money. This isn't a hard decision. Don't be a retard.

Live free or die, nigger.

 

[soulless guarantee]

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

Spoiler: Dead Kiwi Society

 

[HiddenFist]

Rip, the internet will become an extremely grim place and Big Tech will always find loopholes and have lawyers on standby.

 

[DavidS877]

Is it time to bring back Usenet? Or someone design a new fully decentralized system for discussions.

 

[Jack Awful]

Discord is the worst possible idea you could have come up with.

Every public site will be fucked, so what's the alternative, everyone going back to IRC?

 

[Happy Fish]

Yes. The civil protections that protect the Kiwifarms protects the Internet Archive.

Anyways, if there is an actual, serious, draft of legislation that would revoke or significantly weaken §230, I hope we'll see the pushback that we saw for SOPA and PIPA way back when. It would probably happen, at least in this scenario. Nuking it would draw the ire of the people who control the masses. A compromise might still be shit, but it wouldn't be the doomsday scenario. Also Trump hasn't fulfilled most of what he's loudly declared he will do anyways, I don't see how much this is any different, considering he is now in lame duck status.

The problem would be presenting it in such a manner that reminds people who are pissed at mainstream social media that "Yes repealing this does more than nuke the websites you hate off the face of the Earth." Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. really have this coming. The problem is the scope of the change and the unintended effects.

 

[Aquinas]

@Nulljust shut it down. tbh the sites trended toward being disqus for incels on one side and the youtube comments bar for people who cant stop getting banned for saying NIGGERFAGGOT. It was great when we talked about dopey autistic people and weird trannies but now its all about grifty youtube personalities who exploit the site as a means of gaining notoriety or people yelling about da nooz and da jooz. time to move on.

thats your fault for going to AH and not the lolcow threads

 

[Otterly]

I’ve loved this site. You’ve made me laugh, snort, occasionally feel a bit sick, and learn more about furries than is compatible with sanity. It’s been a blast.

If it ends, it ends. You built something amazing. Stalk off into the sunset with Edith Piaf warbling ‘Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien’ in the background and enjoy your life. You deserve to be happy, anonymous and un-sued.

Grattis, null. Happy birthday.

 

[Rinny.]

Not surprising. Sad.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Orange Man genuinely a bit Bad.

 

[The I Scream Man]

Perhaps I've been reading the wrong websites but everything I've seen indicates that the NDAA will pass without any language regarding 230 in it at this time, there's some bills people are trying to float through Judiciary but none have even been voted on at this time. I think this is a little premature hoss

 

[Demonslayer1776]

I pray for the 1% miracle that this somehow turns into something good, and we get a revision that fucks over big tech censorship while protecting sites like KF, but its nothing but wishful thinking. If we're lucky there won't be any follow-through and this will all be forgotten. But hell, this year has been so fucking shit already I expect everything to crash and burn in the worst way possible. 2020 has already done wonders to ruin anything enjoyable in life, its only natural it'll go out with a bang. If things go as expected I wish everybody good luck in the upcoming neoliberal hellscape, where nothing but large silicon valley tech companies funded by multinational billionaires can survive on the internet.

 

[Bad Gateway]

Bummer, I kind of like this webpage.

 

[Baby Yoda]

https://thedonald.win/p/11QlB0nuxr/x/c/4DpMLPVO63N

This might be the single most autistic thing I've ever read. I'm actually impressed. By the end of this I couldn't even tell if he is in favor of 230 repeal or not, supportive of Trump, or not. Not sure why a principal of Gab, at least that's who I think this is, would go onto thedonald.win and sperg, but there you have it.

Spoiler: Somebody from Gab (I think)

100 percent this there was and gab explains why here

The Big Tech giants want to be regulated.

Yes, you read that right.

Big Tech knows that if online speech is regulated by the federal government, either directly or indirectly via regulation of tech companies, they can and will weaponize it against The People and stifle competition.

Big Tech oligarchs have tried everything to destroy Gab.com and stop our industry-leading free speech software from reaching the masses.

They banned us from both app stores, yet we still continued to grow.

Then they banned us from hosting providers, so we built our own.

Then they banned us from Paypal, Stripe, Coinbase, Square, and more. So we educated our community on free speech money and the great people on Gab started mailing us physical checks to keep the site online.

Then they blacklisted my family from Visa in a Communist Chinese Party social credit score-style form of tyranny.

Despite being banned by 25+ service providers including domain registrars, hosting platforms, app stores, email services, ecommerce services, and more: Gab has survived and continues to thrive.

Gab exists outside of the establishment’s control. They don’t like this, at all. Their monopoly on the free flow of information is coming to an end because Gab is inevitable.

When all else has failed, Big Tech and the establishment have set their sights on using Big Government to crush Gab and other alternative technology startups by destroying Section 230 and lobbying for regulation of speech on the internet.

Regulation will solidify Big Tech’s already overpowered and abusive market monopolies.

What folks need to understand is that Section 230 does not protect the speech of Big Tech companies. When Big Tech “fact checks” user content they are acting as a publisher and Section 230 immunity does not apply. As such, they can be held accountable for that speech.

Section 230 doesn’t apply to Big Tech’s editorializing. The First Amendment does. Section 230 only applies to content that users post on their platforms. It provides no protections for Big Tech’s own speech. They can and should be punished for the false information they are giving the public by weaponizing this editorialization of user content

In the case of the Coronavirus, Big Tech has been using the WHO as an “authority” on health related matters instead of official health guidelines from the President of the United States. This is a matter of national security and public health.

The same goes for editorializing election-related content. By “fact checking” one candidate and not another Big Tech is giving an in-kind campaign contribution of enormous and immeasurable monetary value to the Biden campaign. Big Tech should be investigated by the FEC for these in-kind campaign contributions to the Biden campaign. The RNC has filed a report on it, so let’s hope the FEC takes action.

Big Tech had record stock market performance under the Trump administration and how are they repaying him?

By helping the Democrats spread the Russian hoax narrative.

By “fact checking” him and not Joe Biden.

By censoring links to news stories about Joe Biden.

The President can and should trust bust the Big Tech monopolies, in particular Apple and Google’s duopoly on mobile app distribution along with Facebook and Google’s duopoly on online advertising and search. The only big reason he hasn't is because Big Tech stocks make up a significant portion of the stock market growth he likes to tout.

If the market needs to take a hit in order to destroy a domestic threat to freedom and the flow of information online then so be it. We do not worship the stock market in America, we worship almighty God. Your 401k gains aren’t worth the future of the Republic, sorry.

My point is: don’t fall for the Section 230 narrative. It’s a distraction. There are plenty of other things that can be done to stop Big Tech tyranny.

The President vastly underestimates how much influence he has online. Trust busting, FEC investigations, and more aside: if the President were to promote free speech technology platforms like Gab the Big Tech panopticon would collapse on itself and fast.

I just hope the President realizes this before it’s too late.

FWIW, somebody like Dinesh D'Souza has over two million followers on Parler. I'm not even sure Gab has two million registered accounts.

I dont know why boomer cucks love Dinesh the street shitting retard so much.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

And @Null, give us like a ten minute warning or somewhere we can congregate. We'll take this bitch to the deep web.

Yeah, please, if you think that the time has come, at least don't pull the plug without warning, I want to say goodbye before it all goes dark.

 

[Not Really Here]

Make sure to sell your tech stocks and short social media companies.
When normies wake up to what this means, the market will flatline.

 

[aediot]

The timing is just impeccable considering you just posted about rebuilding ED yesterday.

I doubt big tech is just going to roll over. They are probably going to pour million into lobbying congress to make sure it doesn't get repelled. This is could get them in so much trouble if its repealed willy nilly like trump seems hellbent on doing.

I've probably invested near 8k (not including the 5k from this recent lawsuit) into rebuilding everything from the absolute state it was handed to me in so yea the timing is complete ass.

Makes me mad as hell to think all of that could just poof cause some orange nigger decided it would be funny.

 

[Cardboard Box Mountain]

reddit, we already had to get used to upvote downvote yesterday

Gab, Minds, and/or Mewe. And Bitchute. Not a replacement by any means, but better than staring blankly at the wall while getting blackout drunk.

 

[Terrorist]

Much like his presidency, Zion Don the Ziocon Moron’s free speech war ends in a wet fart that will screw some of his earliest and most fervent supporters. Never trust the Gay Old Perverts to do anything for you. “I’ve done so much to fight anti-semitism online folks!”

 

[CatParty]

Who knew trump would be the lolcow to bring the site down