Justice Department to propose limiting internet firms’ Section 230 protections

Re:Justice Department to propose limiting internet firms’ Se... by snarf21 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:14AM (#23550947)

That's what makes laws like this so silly. Look at how companies split into pieces to avoid corporate tax. They'll simply do the same here. Such a waste of time and effort and it really only affects the small companies which don't have this problem anyway. So dumb.

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Re:Justice Department to propose limiting internet firms’ Se... by seemslegit on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:17AM (#23550980)

Yeah all those dumb secretaries, presidents, senators and the people who work for them, they really ought to be reading more HN to learn about how things work.

Unless of course any company whose viability materially depends on Section 230 protections would have been dead in the water pretty much in any other jurisdiction on earth in the first place, the threat of moving out of the US was a naked bluff and the powers that be realized it.

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Re:Justice Department to propose limiting internet firms’ Se... by Nasrudith on Thursday June 18, 2020 @05:20PM (#23568168)

They have a lengthy history of technically illiterate demagoguery and utterly idiotic statements about it while only paying attention to what their lobbyists feed them.

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Re:Justice Department to propose limiting internet firms’ Se... by seemslegit on Friday June 19, 2020 @09:35AM (#23574368)

What does this have to do with technical literacy ? They're not writing an RFC and there's nothing technical about section 230 of the communication decency act.

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Re:Justice Department to propose limiting internet firms’ Se... by scohesc on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:25AM (#23551776)

Yep.

If companies are willing to put up with the Chinese government telling them what to do, what to say, and how to operate their business in China, I'm pretty sure America will be fine.

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