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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday July 30 2020, @02:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the change-is-in-the-wind dept.

Democrats want a truce with Section 230 supporters:

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which says apps and websites aren't legally liable for third-party content, has inspired a lot of overheated rhetoric in Congress. Republicans like Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) have successfully framed the rule as a "gift to Big Tech" that enables social media censorship. While Democrats have very different critiques, some have embraced a similar fire-and-brimstone tone with the bipartisan EARN IT Act. But a Senate subcommittee tried to reset that narrative today with a hearing for the Platform Accountability and Consumer Transparency (PACT) Act, a similarly bipartisan attempt at a more nuanced Section 230 amendment. While the hearing didn't address all of the PACT Act's very real flaws, it presented the bill as an option for Section 230 defenders who still want a say in potential reforms.

[...] Still, Section 230 has been at the forefront of US politics for years, and some kind of change looks increasingly likely. If that's true, then particularly after today's hearing, a revised version of the PACT Act looks like the clearest existing option to preserve important parts of the law without dismissing calls for reform. And hashing out those specifics may prove more important than focusing on the policy's most hyperbolic critics.


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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 01 2020, @03:24AM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday August 01 2020, @03:24AM (#1029620) Journal

    It's really tragic that once liberals like the ACLU fought for the rights of groups like the KKK and neo-Nazis, and now all that's left on the left are bigots like you. No ideals, no integrity, just the primal scream of spastic narcissism.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @06:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @06:39PM (#1029926)

    Why is it that every insult you attempt is always such an accurate picture of yourself.

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday August 01 2020, @07:00PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday August 01 2020, @07:00PM (#1029945) Journal

    Even ACs are starting to notice how your entire schtick is nothing but projection now, right down to the accusations of bigotry.

    I don't know what happened to you, but I noticed you getting more and more stereotypically thoughtless and lowest-common-denominator over the last couple of years. It sounds to me like all your attempts to "prove you're one of the good ones"--where you live, who your married, your supposed activism, your mixed-race child--were meant mostly to convince yourself and others that your deepest, ugliest tendencies weren't actually real. Virtue-signalling in the truest and widest-reaching sense of the term, in other words.

    And at some point in the last 2 years or so, it seems like you finally snapped, started screaming "WHAT THE FUCK DO THESE PEOPLE WANT FROM ME, I DIDN'T CHOOSE TO BE A STRAIGHT WHITE CHRISTIAN MIDDLE-CLASS MALE?!" and decided to say fuck it, not going to bother anymore. This, by the way, is what "white fragility" means :) And while you didn't choose to be male, straight, or white, your religion absolutely *is* a lifestyle choice and no one as intelligent as you has a right to remain this ignorant about its roots, its history, and its internal inconsistencies.

    But noooo, instead of fixing yourself, you've decided to spitefully throw yourself down in the middle of the road and have a flailing, bawling, red-faced, pants-shitting existential temper tantrum over how meeeeeeean everyone else is and how unworthy all those minorities are of your incorruptible pure pureness! After all, you're "one of the good ones," so anyone who doesn't bow down and acknowledge that to the point of verbal fellatio MUST be a sick, twisted, subhuman piece of shit, right?

    Game. Set. Match. mic.self(drop);

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