Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Getting rid of CDA 230 won't get rid of Facebook or make it clean up its act. It will ...
Getting rid of CDA 230 won't get rid of Facebook or make it clean up its act. It will just make it impossible for anyone to offer an alternative to Facebook, permanently enshrining Zuck's dominance over our digital future. That's why Mark Zuckerberg wants to kill Section 230:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/zuckerberg-calls-changes-techs-section-230-protections-rcna486Defending policies that make it easier to host speech isn't the same thing as defending tech companies' profits, though these do sometimes overlap.
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