From what I understand 230 defends Twitter and Facebook against being held accountable for the contents posted by users. Lets say they remove it what impact it is going to have?
Other then call for violence directly it is going to be defended by the 1'st Amendment so I do not see it hurting this giant corporations in a big way.
On top of that they are going to be allowed a time of X to remove calls to violence on their site, similar with how EU did.
What am I missing here?
Can people help me out here with these many internet checkerboard moves?
How is this related to SOPA and PIPA, and then Obama's giveaways of internet American overlordship. (forgot what that was called) Net.something that reddit was pushing There has been so much much disinformation, at this point I'm fucking lost in it. ready to give up
SOPA, PIPA, and some of Trumps recent deals, are all trade deals, treaties, and other international agreements, with some things in common. They are all ENORMOUS HUGE, but there were various terrible things in them.
Some of the components of the agreements, would have had encryption back doors (such as Australia now does have), super-oppresive copyright laws (we did get some of that), super anti-piracy laws (identity and logging requirements in e-comerce, or with information handlers, etc).
To be honest, each piece of legislation has to be handled on its own, due to them simply being so large, and covering such a massive range of policy.
Obama's surrendering of American control of ICAN, is more difficult to unpack. It's been claimed that, by allowing international actors to more directly control the lowest-level of internet names and addresses, the US has less control over the internet overall. OTOH, it's not clear what has actually changed because of this, or how America was previously using/benefiting-from that putative control.
Net neutrality, is basically Anti-Monopoly policy for ISPs. Basically, it says that if you handle internet traffic, you must handle it all at the same speed/price - regardless of content, who it came from, or where it's going.
What we have now, thanks to Trump and Ajit Pai, is a situation in which Walmart can pay Spectrum to insert a 30min delay before loading "target.com". More importantly, Spectrum can go to them and force them both to pay more so that neither one gets the privilge. Worst of all, ALL the tech companies will be willing to charge more, and serve less, serve slower, any newcomers. Amazon and Microsft Azure might not agree on a lot, but they both agree no one should enter the ring with them.
Honestly, the fall of Net Neutrality was a dangerous step in the wrong direction.
The monstrosity that was the last "net neutrality" bill was already a dangerous step in the wrong direction.
I'm not sure what an internet kill switch run by the executive branch had to do with "net neutrality," but I'm glad it's gone either way.
Oh yeah, bills to elevate Net Neutrality to a law, have been uniformly trojan-horse garbage. 100%.
This is why we can't have nice things.