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Re:FCC to move ahead with 'rulemaking' on Section 230 by jakelazaroff on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:33PM (#24797178)
That's my understanding as well, and my claim is that nothing would be fundamentally different from how it is now. Twitter would take on the role of today's ISP, and the moderation services would take on the role of Twitter/Mastodon/etc, and we're back to square one. There would be a couple big ones that people would flock to because of network effects, and some small "free speech" ones that most people avoid because they don't actually want to see spam/porn/propaganda/etc.
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Re:FCC to move ahead with 'rulemaking' on Section 230 by webmaven on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:15AM (#24823734)
Well, the one thing that would be different is that backend-Twitter has an incentive to keep all the baby-Twitters interoperable, so we kind of get federation for free, via an unlikely route.

Yes, we have federated services now, but the largest and most popular services are non-federated walled gardens.

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