Current Events > Oh shit! Trump is coming after GameFAQs!

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/what-is-section-230-internet-law-trump-wants-to-dismantle-131318175.html

On Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified before the Senate Commerce Committee on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which gives websites that host user-generated content broad protection from legal liability for content posted on their sites.

From our perspective, Section 230 does two basic things. First, it encourages free expression, which is fundamentally important, Zuckerberg told the committee. ...Second, it allows platforms to moderate content. Without 230, platforms could face liability for basic moderation.

Section 230, which for years was largely unknown outside of tech and policy wonk spaces, serves as a foundational piece of the internet and its goal of protecting free expression. In 2018, President Donald Trump signed a law weakening some of Section 230s protections to allow victims to sue websites that knowingly facilitate sex trafficking.

Now Trump, as well as Joe Biden, want to kill the law completely, albeit for different reasons.

The goal of the law was to let message board moderators or large companies remove problematic user content from their sites, without treating them as though they were either making the actual statements, or making editorial decisions akin to a media publication. Without Section 230, community and social platforms ranging from Yelp (YELP) to Facebook to virtually any website with a comments section could face huge legal liabilities for anything posted on their sites.

And Biden is coming for us too!
We're fucked!

Red Ventures is going to be like, "fire the staff and put it in read-only mode. We ain't got CBS money to fight off a lawsuit."

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Thats what the whingey alt-righters who are being perpetually being modded for being really horrible human beings (and violating the TOS) want

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*changes board name from Current Events to Read Only Events*
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Do I side with Donald Trump?

Or do I side with Mark Zuckerberg?

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They think this will curb fake news, but isnt most fake news debunked in the comment section? Thats where people get called out on their lies.

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The_Creep_2020 posted...

Thats what the whingey alt-righters who are being perpetually being modded for being really horrible human beings (and violating the TOS) want

And it'll spectacularly backfire because no company will tolerate all this right-wing bullshit if they're suddenly legally liable for it.
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Bio1590 posted...

And it'll spectacularly backfire because no company will tolerate all this right-wing bullshit if they're suddenly legally liable for it.

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Wait, I know why Trump wants it gone, but why does Biden?

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Dark_twisted posted...

Wait, I know why Trump wants it gone, but why does Biden?

Dems+Biden want it gone because they believe companies like Facebook are hiding behind it to allow false information to propagate.
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BeyondWalls posted...

We're fucked!

they should be going after 4chan and those other sites.... not gamefaqs.
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The law needs to be improved, not scrapped

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iPhone_7 posted...

Do I side with Donald Trump?

Or do I side with Mark Zuckerberg?

Would you rather be shot in the face or stabbed in the balls?

Same kinda deal...

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shitty german politicians would be proud

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I feel like revoking those protections isn't even constitutional. Might as well just say freedom of speech and user content is not legal at all on the internet if you do that.

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https://twitter.com/BadSec230Takes

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pikachupwnage posted...

I feel like revoking those protections isn't even constitutional. Might as well just say freedom of speech and user content is not legal at all on the internet if you do that.

Republicans on free speech: https://twitter.com/Hbomberguy/status/1321526024698384384?s=20

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Alpha218 posted...

The law needs to be improved, not scrapped

Your days are numbered, Alpha!

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BeyondWalls posted...

Your days are numbered, Alpha!

they're going to take Alpha away.... Nooo.
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Alpha218 posted...

The law needs to be improved, not scrapped

Yup. It needs an update, not a an axe.

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kingdrake2 posted...

they're going to take Alpha away.... Nooo.

Im not going anywhere

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First, they came for the Mexicans, and I merely shitposted because I was not Mexican.

Then they came for the Muslims, and I merely shitposted because I was not a Muslim.

Then they came for the Chaaynese, and I merely shitposted because I was not Chaaynese.

Then they came for the Hunter Biden, and I merely shitposted because I was not Hunter Biden.

Then they came for the shitposters, and there was no one left to shitpost about me.

If I vote for Kanye, will he protect us? I stand for Kanye.

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If mods think they're overworked now, just wait until they have to approve every single post that's submitted.

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Bio1590 posted...

Dems+Biden want it gone because they believe companies like Facebook are hiding behind it to allow false information to propagate.

I mean it, it is. I don't necessarily believe that this is the way to fix it correctly but you can be assured that if section 230 goes facebook will sure as shit take down your crazy uncles racist conspiracy garbage real fast.

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Kami_no_Kami posted...

First, they came for the Mexicans, and I merely shitposted because I was not Mexican.

Then they came for the Muslims, and I merely shitposted because I was not a Muslim.

Then they came for the Chaaynese, and I merely shitposted because I was not Chaaynese.

Then they came for the Hunter Biden, and I merely shitposted because I was not Hunter Biden.

Then they came for the shitposters, and there was no one left to shitpost about me.

deep

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Imagine a world where mods have to be approve every post. Does that mean the mod is now legally liable for those posts? Or is GameSpot liable even though mods aren't paid employees?

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