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

[Beavis]

Welp back to alt.discussions.perverted for me

 

[Rand /pol/]

You don’t see the upside to this, really? Let me lay it out for you, then. Forums have been dying for years and years. Big Tech has successfully consolidated online discussion into a few gigantic, monopolistic platforms, like Facebook, Reddit, YouTube comments and so forth. The traffic rankings do not lie.

Alexa - Top sites

www.alexa.com

As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever

Before social networks took over the internet, message boards were perhaps the most essential way for people to come together online and talk about whatever was on their minds. Our discussion spaces have evolved dramatically, though -- message boards aren't as important as they used to be...

www.engadget.com

Do you think it’s healthy for free speech for the vast majority of the web’s users to be siloed on just a few sites with top-down control? With shadowbanning, blacklisted topics, quarantined boards, and all this other draconian net nanny bullshit?

What if there was an alternative?

https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/declaration-of-digital-independence/

KF, the only forum I use or slightly care about will be dead, but atleast some shitty music and video game forums will be around.

 

[Hard Toothbrush]

The salt in this thread is great, unironically

 

[A Grey Cat]

but kiwifarms...its all i have i don't game online, have any big tech social media or anything to occiupy my mind aside work...i...i hope to god that dumbass in chief whoever it is in a month or so doesn't go through with this. i hate them both trump Biden focus on the real issues damnit there's more important things a leader had to worry about than idiots on a forum whining about how star wars sucks ow, showing of their latest dakimakura purchases or making fun of a troon in virgin who believes hes a sonic recolor.

speaking of i do not wanna hear chris bragging about he "beat the trolls on kiwifarms." his ego doesn't need any further stroking.

 

[Thistle]

It'll be Unus Annus all over again. The clock is ticking (before it'll be signed)

Everything is Unus Annus in reality.

 

[Rotollo]

While I agree that a full repeal with nothing to replace 230 would likely fuck this site over, I seriously doubt that's going to happen simply because this is objectively wrong.

97% of all corporate lawsuits are settled with no civil proceedings. This is because in the overwhelming majority of cases, it is far cheaper for companies to simply settle out of court rather than fighting lawsuits. Most of these lawsuits are for dumb shit, that the companies could have easily won if they went to court, but they chose not to. If the full repeal of section 230 does happen, and it does open up tech companies to large amounts of litigation, they will go out of business because they won't have a choice but to fight these lawsuits due to sheer volume. You'll see more lawsuits on sites like those than you will on sites like this not because of anything moderation or content related, but simply because every lawyer in the US will be filing lawsuits against them because they have a lot of shekels to hand out. Obviously, this is completely against the wills of the powers that be, Trump and associates included, so it is highly improbable that you'll actually see a full repeal, or really any repeal for that matter.

Yeah even with AI filtering tools, unless they forced you to give your SSN to dissuade new accounts all this would do is cause people to attempt to find work arounds. I mean even alphabet right now has constant fuck ups with its auto flagging and "Algorithm" they use with YouTube so unless they somehow boosted it's learning within the past couple of months of coof use.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

A nobody, just like you. Except you have the mindset that your post count means shit all. You might as well sign up on SA and join the circle jerk there with that mindset.

Words words not an image post

 

[beautiful person]

Knew it couldn't last forever but it's still really sad. The old Internet is dying like the sunset days of the Wild West.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Well. Christmas and New Years is coming up. Quit whining about how hard you got it and try to help old people and children.

Help. I think I heard that word somewhere. Is it something that people do this time of year?

 

[KooksandFreaks]

I'm gonna miss this place.

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You know who fears me?

Cops, niggers, Canadians.

Also, drug dealers and French and China men.

Whenever a Russian sees me coming? They ask me what I want and say please.

 

[Penis]

 

[Kier]

Ah shit, I just found this website.

 

[Hard Toothbrush]

Let us revive the beanposting from Dick Masterson's thread here.

Bean.

 

[A Welsh Cake]

when you die you better set up kiwi farms in heaven.

 

[Turd Burglar]

Wow, this blows. Who will I make fun of retards on the internet with if this happens?

 

[Penis]

Wow, this blows. Who will I make fun of retards on the internet with if this happens?

If you're the type of person to browse this site you could always just take a look in the mirror

 

[Smug Chuckler]

It was nice shitposting with y'all. bye frends.

 

[Rotollo]

when you die you better set up kiwi farms in heaven.

Yes, where else will we talk about how Winston Churchill was sperging out at king tut in the great beyond?

 

[The Sauce Boss]

Gonna add another fifty cents to the 'Josh is freaking out over what will turn out to be another nothingburger' pool because I'm hoping and praying to God that he's wrong.

 

[srrody]

Damn, only recently started learning about the enigma that is Chris Chan.

Trump could’ve at least timed it till after Borb goes.