Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his employees

Re:Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his emplo... by pavlov on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @07:52PM (#23410575)

I’m just a video rendering code monkey, I have no particular insight into this issue. (FWIW I believe Zuckerberg is genuine in his position, but I also think he’d change it rapidly if the legal environment tilted the other way and it became a genuine business threat.)

I wonder about those different platforms. They already exist — Gab simply isn’t that popular. Revoking Section 230 would expose Gab to a “Thiel vs Gawker” situation: a billionaire could sue them into extinction. That doesn’t seem desirable at all.

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Re:Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his emplo... by Avicebron on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @08:04PM (#23410672)

I'm not a fan of Gab, but it could easily be not popular because it's offering a worse version of the current form of FB.

If FB's status changed, Gab could theoretically become more popular. Not all new platform/publishers would be the equivalent of a Gawker and thus raise the ire of a billionaire. There are plenty of independent journals, magazines, blogging platforms, etc that don't get sued out of existence.

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