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Re:I resigned from Twitter by shadowgovt on Monday November 29, 2021 @12:25PM (#29382487)
Sadly, the solution so described amounts to nationalizing free speech (between the removal of protections and the "blessing" of some few channels).

Wouldn't fly in the US, so it's a non-starters since those companies are based in the US.

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Re:I resigned from Twitter by busterarm on Monday November 29, 2021 @05:05PM (#29385890)
Except in reality it's the opposite.

Free Speech is SO IMPORTANT that it can't be fettered by private companies for private gain like Facebook.

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Re:I resigned from Twitter by shadowgovt on Monday November 29, 2021 @07:35PM (#29387307)
No disagreement that free speech is important, but the solution proposed up-thread wouldn't safeguard it. In practice, it would instead limit controversial content to only a small set of sites while everything else (for fear of lawsuits currently headed off by S230 protections) would either close shop or become more moderated than it already is.

... This is in addition to the legal / philosophical criticism that the government repealing S230 protection for all but a few websites would be equivalent to the government providing libel-lawsuit protection to only a few state-sanctioned media outlets. Wholly incompatible with the first amendment.

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Re:I resigned from Twitter by soundnote on Monday November 29, 2021 @09:01PM (#29387929)
It really doesn't matter the system - people are already upset that people they don't like are doing things like selling NFTs (please don't buy NFTs, they're cringe)
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