Yeah we need to upvote this one for more general discussion. From what I'm reading if Trump gets his way on this one then the fediverse will essentially be able to be crippled by frivolous lawsuits from anyone who dislikes the speech on the platform and essentially make running it impossible within the US. And of course there's some tech-illiterate grandpas on the Democrats side who fundamentally misunderstand (or willfully and with a stuffed wallet) this legislation and will work with the GOP to end free speech online.
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Just makes it that much more important to host instances outside the US, and to conceal your location if you run such a website from within the US. I'd say I can't believe they'd be this stupid, but I'm coming to believe a lot of uncomfortable truths lately.
Call your senators and tell them to vote no
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
(if dems, also tell them to push for replacing minority senate leadership)
Call your house reps and tell them to vote no
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Make them feel the pressure keep building. Calls are just step one to build that pressure, protests in person, etc.
Frankly, we need an alternative to DNS that isn't vulnerable to this kind of censorship.
It exists - it's called ENS (Ethereum Name Service). All domain names and associated data (like adresses) are stored in the blockchain and accessed through P2P network (Think Torrent-like) with strong cryptographic security.
Well, at least it's set for 1/1/2027. By then, free speech will be long gone anyways or we'll have gotten our act together
I'm sick of this constant fight to stay in place. Fuck the Democrats, we need a party that will do more then slowly cowtow to the fascists
Democrats will still claim their party is the lesser evil and not incremental fascism.
Slow fascism vs slightly faster fascism.
There's only one speed of fascism, the Democrat ratchet effect keeps it at a constant speed.
Which brings us back to the core question: how could these Democratic Senators support a plan that would simultaneously give Donald Trump unprecedented censorship powers while also consolidating Meta’s control over online speech?
The evidence suggests they simply don’t understand what they’re doing. Each of these Senators has a documented history of fundamental confusion about Section 230 and how the internet works:
Richard Blumenthal has been getting Section 230 wrong since his days as Connecticut’s AG in the early 2000s.
Sheldon Whitehouse’s chapter on free speech revealed such profound confusion about Section 230 that it’s hard to believe he’s actually read the law.
We’ve already covered Durbin and Klobuchar’s dangerous misunderstandings.
I'm sure glad they're the representatives standing up for democracy haha right guys?