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okay I have Seen the continuation of that Section 230 post. I was hoping it would prove me wrong in any way, I am eager to be mad at the Republicans on this one and even more eager to find out I got it confused with a different thing.

I didn't.

That post was a slurry of fearmongering memes, citations to twitter accounts, and the goddamn EFF who explicitly state their summary is not legal advice and that they are protecting Facebook and they never even cite the relevant legal text to begin with. They even used the fucking Corporate Talking Point on this issue, that it would be "infeasible" to expect social media companies to be able to moderate each and every message posted on their sites. That is not what the proposed law asks for. It asks for social media companies to *disclose theicr algorithms*. The algorithms which *already* censor their users, based on criteria they have no obligation to share under scrutiny of any kind. What we have gathered is that the algorithms do not censor *content*, they censor *who gets to read your posts*. And, again, no government anywhere in the world has seen the criteria for these algorithms. The only people who have are those opportunists who Give Lots Of Money To Mark Zuckerberg and know how to ask him the right way. So. Actually. It would be trivial to moderate social media, as they already do it and refuse to make their algorithms public, so nobody knows what the rules are. The proposed revision to Section 230 focuses on social media companies with the intent on making such algorithms transparent, and if we find out the algorithm explicitly discriminates against specific groups of people then Facebook executives can be sued. Facebook *employees* want this. That's what all those whistleblower stories *amounted to*.

Facebook and Google currently have a strangling duopoly on the internet market, they are going through the discovery phase of a particularly big lawsuit, and the records that have gone public so far describe redacted executives who explicitly reject any notion of moderation in favour of maximizing engagement, maximizing public anger in particular. Executives who also rely on Section 230 in its current form in order to avoid legal scrutiny. It is all they have right now, and they will not go down without a fight, and memes are corporate weapons now, have been for a decade already.

The internet, and your content on it, does not belong to the social media sites. It belongs to the people, and the people did not elect social media to govern them, they elected the government. It's in the name. For fuck's sake, if Facebook wanted to, they could create thousands of jobs by establishing a Moderator program and have this sorted out in days, Facebook employees already had this idea and wanted it to happen but it does not fast-track Ad Engagement so it got shot down. (That is *another* thing the whistleblower stories brought up.)

What is happening right now, through these Section 230 fearmongering posts, is Facebook is currently holding the userbase hostage and threatening to harm them if the revisions go through. The fucking EFF article it cited did not say that the revisions would impact the user, it said that it would impact companies who would then "pass it down" to the user. The companies are holding you hostage and gaslighting you, all over the profits of investors and executives for companies that fucking singlehandedly enable ongoing genocides. Distrust the government all you want, but if you trust the word of these social media companies over the government, you have been bought and sold to the highest bidder.

Citations: Life. Reading the sources. Distrust of memes. Elon Musk desperately wants Section 230 to stay as it is.

#about the only argument with any merit is that it's the hyperrepublican supreme court who are hearing this #and yeah that's one of the key reasons the republicans wanted to stack the court so bad #to depress the legitimacy of it so even Good cases will seem bad #the truth there is we Do Not Know what this supreme court would do. this isn't as clear-cut as lgbt rights or abortion #where the evil choice is obvious #this is the discussion of Regulation of a New Technology. like when TV was first regulated. #and if this supreme court actually chooses to make life better then guess what! that won't nullify all the bad shit they've done! #nobody's asking you to suddenly love the supreme court! #i am just asking you to Please Read The Legal Text. *verify!!!!* #don't seek someone else's interpretation of it!!! don't even accept mine! i haven't verified this in a few months! #read the legal text for yourself!!!!! and *that* will give you permission to panic!!! #(a week of leaving this post in my drafts Edit: I have since become more certain.)

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