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For all the people cheering or indifferent to this:
This would affect more than social media - this would affect ANYWHERE that has user accounts that can post content - blogs, wikis, website builders, hell, even email.
The summary states this is so it can be "renegotiated". Considering the current authoritarian direction of the United States, now would be absolutely the worst time to rewrite online content policing laws - it will absolutely be used to silence dissent.
If it accidentally kills Facebook and X, that would be a silver lining. But then again they have the money and connections to be effectively immune, as does Truth Social. It's smaller sites that would suffer, and it would be selectively enforced as another means of political persecution.
The Fediverse might still be OK, but it might become dangerous for US-based admins even if hosting outside the USA.
Might be dangerous for Fediverse hosters outside the US to visit the US as well.
So Durbin is basically a Republican now huh. Good to know.
Durbin was one of the 10 that recently voted Yes on the Republican spending bill, so yeah Democrat In Name Only
Haha DINO
Bipartisan? Which democrat is still working with any republican on anything??
Why the fuck is Sheldon Whitehouse sponsoring this??? Does he suddenly have shit for brains?
Yes. Money talks.
Archive without AI slop here
Round two: Lindsey Graham vs Elon Musk
Good. All the major centralized/corporate social networks are Nazi bars now anyway; nothing of value will be lost if they can no longer exist.
Remember that the Fediverse could survive instances having legal liability for user-posted content because each user could run his own instance.
The Nazi bars will survive. It's the dissenters and minorities trying to speak in them that will be silenced as a self-protective move by tech corporations.
All the major centralized/corporate social networks are Nazi bars now anyway; nothing of value will be lost if they can no longer exist.
Uh... Bluesky? And in the first place it won't be the big platforms losing here, but the small ones. What section 230 does is make it so you don't need a first amendment argument to prevent the courts from controlling what you do with your internet platform, because a first amendment lawsuit is very expensive to run compared to a section 230 lawsuit.
because each user could run his own instance.
They can, but that will push many people away.
I don’t buy the smaller platforms being hurt more argument.
It’s not hard to prevent undue burden on smaller platforms by adding in the bill that it only applies to platforms with more than $1B in revenue.
We need to get rid of 230 because it has given way too much immunity to the biggest internet companies and they have been simply shrugging away all their responsibilities. Let’s work out how to make this bill work for the people instead of shutting it out.
100% agreed. Not even that high. Platforms that generate more than $1 million in revenue. Wipe out these engines of disinformation.
Remember that the Fediverse could survive instances having legal liability for user-posted content because each user could run his own instance.
And this would require each user to run their own instance. The Fediverse is already hard enough to get average folks to join, this would make it nigh impossible for most.
People outside the USA will still run instances. It might become harder for people in the USA to access them, depending on how these measures are enforced.
Sure, but wouldn't it be nice if people inside the USA could still run instances too?
Of course. In the current climate this bill would be a huge problem.
They'd do it, because the alternative would be no social media at all.
X would somehow magically be exempt from legal problems, it'd still be around. Same with Truth Social.
But surely one user posting illegal content would get blasted to all connected instances making everyone guilty.
So... Worse. Much worse.
Yeah, I'm struggling to see the downside of this personally, which means there is no way in gods green hell it will happen.