Techdirt Podcast Episode 345: The Supreme Court Takes On 230
from the big-decisions dept
After all these years, the Supreme Court is finally weighing in on Section 230 in the Gonzalez and Taamneh cases, and the outcome could have a very significant impact. Our organization, the Copia Institute, filed an amicus brief in the case, as did many other parties. This week, we’re joined by Jess Miers from the Chamber of Progress and lawyer Cathy Gellis (who wrote our amicus brief), both of whom attended the Gonzalez hearing in person, to discuss the status of both cases and what they could mean for the future of the internet.
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Filed Under: cathy gellis, content moderation, gonzalez, jess miers, section 230, supreme court, taamneh
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A list of doxing websites which wouldn’t exist without Section 230, including some that have encouraged offline terrorist threats (like bomb threats of places that one trans person was visiting), would have made an interesting brief. Did the NBC journalists who covered that file anything?
MTG getting doxed is playing more of a role than people realize.
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…said nobody not on hallucinogens, ever.
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Without 230, a site could just have opted not to moderate at all and just say “we have no knowledge of any doxxing occurring on our site since we don’t moderate”.
The world isn’t perfect, deal with it or keep railing against reality.
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This is about par for the course for you, John Smith, bitching about sites you don’t actually visit and sexual minorities you don’t actually think are worth protecting. But here’s the thing about your snide little quote:
What relevance do you think MTG has to this, aside from being an obnoxious waste of space who drank the Trump-Aid for four years and did fuck all with it besides embarrassing herself constantly? MTG getting criticized is not doxing. Pointing out all the stupid shit she said is not doxing. A lack of Section 230 would not stop her from being critiqued, any more than a lack of 230 would stop her from being a weak ass genetic mistake. But hey, your boy Trump failed to destroy Section 230 in his four years (it’s almost like he should’ve stopped fucking around the way he did, imagine that!) and feeble, simpering fantasies is all you have left as a coping mechanism.
best of luck keeping intact if it is kept at all. the idea of getting rid of it is purely selfishness on the part of the rich, the famous and their friends with the added bit of giving control of the Internet to the entertainment industries. let’s face it, they want it simply because they lost out, were too slow to recognize it and it’s worth and are now taking that fuck up out on the rest of the world! they are influencing every country on the Planet and basically forcing them to comply with USA laws and desires. does that smack of something that happened in the 1930s and where that led?