I was a long time subscriber there; my account became old enough to legally buy beer last year.

The insanity at Ars started a long time before 2016, it started with Bush 43. It got infinitesimally worse as Obama administration progressed, and got just absolutely unbearable in 2016. I dropped my annual prescription in 2016, and only really go back to the forums to post in a very few selective game threads.

The user base of Ars trends heavily towards white collar college graduate professionals, and we all know how radical universities got in late 2000s early 2010s. Most of the Ars userbase is just as clueless, just as disconnected, as the woke left in every other profession.

No one there has the self awareness to realize that the present ability of tech monopolies to both enjoy broad Section 230 protections against legal liability and the ability to curate content is not due to Section 230 as written, but rather court interpretation of same. Federal courts have basically given tech monopolies carte blanche to do whatever they want, and will not allow plaintiffs the legal remedies built into Section 230.

I was a long time subscriber there; my account became old enough to legally buy beer last year.

The insanity at Ars started a long time before 2016, it started with Bush 43. It got infinitesimally worse as Obama administration progressed, and got just absolutely unbearable in 2016. I dropped my annual prescription in 2016, and only really go back to the forums to post in a very few selective game threads.

The user base of Ars trends heavily towards white collar college graduate professionals, and we all know how radical universities got in late 200s early 2010s. Most of the Ars userbase is just as clueless, just as disconnected, as the woke left in every other profession.

No one there has the self awareness to realize that the present ability of tech monopolies to both enjoy broad Section 230 protections against legal liability and the ability to curate content is not due to Section 230 as written, but rather court interpretation of same. Federal courts have basically given tech monopolies carte blanche to do whatever they want, and will not allow plaintiffs the legal remedies built into Section 230.