And, yeah, places like Yelp and Twitter that allow falsehoods slander to travel multiple times around the world while the truth barely makes it out there, do need to bear some responsibility for ruining people's lives. Just look at Nick Sandmann, for goodness' sake.
Monopolisitc sites like Twitter, Google and FB need to be reigned in to allow competition to flourish.
Sorry, Rick, if they abuse it (and they have...MASSIVELY) they lose it.
I remember when N R was actually good, thoughtful and logical. That was thousands and thousands of years ago when W F Buckley ran it.
Dropped my subscription when they decided that RINO was the way to go.
Screw NR and Santorum.....they have no clue how irrelevant they are
why do we have to have liberla/conservative facebooks?
why cant there simply be a “facebook” that doesnt get involved in politics at all? This way people can still stay connected with their friends.
maybe FB should start allowing tags on posts i.e. politics/sports/memes etc... so people can simply “block” from seeing posts that arent of interest to them. I know for a fact 100% that my sis-in-law would like to block ALL political posts and probably most sports posts if she could—regardless of political affiliation
There has to be some way to make this law a protection against torts, as it was originally intended, instead of a license to swing elections, and Twitter and Facebook et al have used it. IANAL, but surely this can be done by smart lawyers. If not, then I say repeal Section 230, and let the lawsuits fly. It will then be settled by the courts.
There has to be some way to make this law a protection against torts, as it was originally intended, instead of a license to swing elections, as Twitter and Facebook et al have used it. IANAL, but surely this can be done by smart lawyers. If not, then I say repeal Section 230, and let the lawsuits fly. It will then be settled by the courts.
Yelp is a real racket. Anyone can post defamatory reviews of businesses. If the business wants the post removed - they need to pay to join Yelp.
An unequal ability to broadcast a short, concise message to break news. The equivalent of an AP wire in everyone's hands. Whatever follows Twitter will be simply more diffuse receptors in the internet of things. Twitter is the democratization of democratized communications, but unfortunately its CEO is a micro-dosing, starvation-nation Lunatic, who decided under Trump that Democratization started with a capital "D". That alone is enough to subject him to Section 230, and by that I mean, punish him until another entity can buy Twitter on the cheap, but not FB or Alphabet/Google.
no.
it’s not the dawn of the internet santorum. social media has its “big boy,” monopoly pants on now. it obviously can take care of itself. disallowing individual law suits is always a bad idea, imo. if you’re business today and you can’t survive a few frivolous lawsuits, then you can’t survive period. your business model is wrong. clean it up. hire some monitors, etc.
and anyway even if..., i’d much rather have no mass social media than have monopoly twitter, you(boob)tube, alphabet, comcast/nbc, facebook, etc.
We don’t need to eliminate Section 230, we need to limit it.
We don’t allow lawsuits against the phone company for the content of the conversations that because the phone company is simply the carrier, it doesn’t control the content.
Ditto for lawsuits against ISPs.
What we need companies like Facebook and Twitter to do is to choose. If they’re simply a carrier, distributing the content of others, they should be immune to lawsuits for the content.
But if they’re going to censor the content, they are no longer content-neutral carriers, and they should lose the protections that we provide for carriers.
For the simple fact that there NEEDS to be a “conservative” version of anything proves Section 230 needs to go away.
I posted this recently on Facebook and am now in 30 days of FB jail again. Quote "“Planned voter fraud is treason against America and against the president of the United States. And people who are involved in it when the truth comes out should be executed in public squares!!”"
It was my opinion!
They have proven their ideals in hearings in our government...that they are liars and controllers!
I was a Santorum supporter until he declared George Zimmerman guilty of murdering the mugger who attacked him. Zimmerman was later found not guilty on all charges.
We do not need any laws.
Everybody just needs to cancel their Facebook, Twitter, and Google accounts.
I did it, I am on mewe and Parler now.
National Review is dead to me.
Hey Santorum,
Just tell your friends at Big Tech to start acting like Americans and let political speech be free. That’s all they have to do. Yet, instead, they want to be the hand maidens to the ultra left Democrat socialism, and will censor and destroy any conservative voice in America that goes against it.
They must realize they are a highway, like an interstate, a public thoroughfare, like private malls are viewed in NJ. People can picket at malls in NJ as the state supreme court has granted them access, saying the right of free speech is absolutely available on private mall property, because of the public access!
Someone have a link to Section 230? It would be nice to read it, instead of reading about it.
Facebook and Twitter engaged in sedition and treason.
Start up an American-style Nuremberg tribunal and hang them.