To anyone saying that since the Congress is ignoring Trump so that its fine:
Anti-230 attitudes are already in Congress: nobody said "that's fucking insane" they just said "it's not appropriate in this bill."
For instance, I have in front of me a full-page advertisement from Facebook, saying
We support updated [internet] regulations that will address today's challenges and hold companies, including Facebook, accountable on issues, including
* Combating foreign election interference
* Protecting peoples privacy and data
* Enabling safe and easy data portability between platforms
I 100% expect a significant neutering of 230 to accompany any internet regulation bill that addresses the things the big guys want. This advertisement, by the way, was in
The National Review, a republican/conservative magazine. You think Facebook left-leaning or whatever? They're playing to both sides to secure themselves power over others. Don't expect the attitude to go away, and expect more people to support it in the next administration by the sheer fact that a Democrat will be supporting it. Also, to those wanting to own "big tech", getting rid of 230 to own Twitter is like getting rid of the Free Press Clause to own the New York Times. It's less of a nuke and more of deliberately activating Yellowstone by way of gigantic meteor impact.
The Nixon speech Null referenced wasn't written when the situation for the lunar astronauts was bleak: it was written days before launch. Apollo 11 was humanity's great tightrope walk into the great unknown: just because we passed one test doesn't mean
something could fuck up and nearly destroy everything we worked for. For any spaceflight success is the perfect storm, while failure and death is whats probable, so you always have to be on your toes and expect the worst. When you don't take
the odds stacked against you into account,
you get fucked, and we don't even have the benefit of thousands of experts, millions in funding, favorable public opinion, and the laws of physics.
