By then it's too late.

And if you want to play the "Republican Super PAC" card, remember the Dems have way more money. You'd need to include that too if you want to pull parties into it.

Yes, and they would all be suing Twitter

Killing it

Or, Twitter goes hands off, and they can't sue

You and Beemann both somehow believe simultaneously that "removing section 230 would kill social media" and yet "people would make alternatives" despite Gab getting harrassed to hell and back and the SPLC literally being created to sue organizations it doesn't like out of existence.

It's not just Twitter though. It's your fabled alternatives.

And twitter wouldn't really have the option to go hands off if they lack any protections.

I'm done. I have stuff to do and I don't feel like arguing with an anvil anymore.

They won't lack protection. Now, the old law protecting platforms might need to be updated so the wording covers social media. But it's the same protection keeping you from suing library for mein Kampf

It's the same protection 230 extended to platforms that censor

And I'm saying that won't be nearly enough. And remember which one of us made excuses when someone asked about section 230 earlier.

Sorry, I should go. But you and Beemann can drive me nuts in how repetitive and inflexible you guys are.

I'm still walking around NYC

Hence why I'm disappearing

You and Beemann are hilariously naive on this. We went over this earlier. You haven't rebutted anything.

You have a hilarious trust in the ability for government to pass effective regulation.

It's like trusting the EU to pass something that didn't take away your freedoms

Ah, the old game of "who's going to screw us over more?"

Basically

At least with companies I have the option not to use them

But I dislike the flip flop of calling for regulation. "Oh, if a baker won't make you a cake, open your own bakery"

"Twitter won't let me on their platform! I demand to be let on their platform!"

Government regulation got us here, and you want to regulate us out of it. Then bitch when the left does the same shit.

^^

Beautifully said

well, the alternative to twitter is not likely to survive the week. it is being kicked off its host later today, and has lost both payment processors.

saying the invisible hand of the free market will fix this problem is making the presumption that there is a free market. but it appears the barriers to entry are very high and that other actors within the market are colluding. moreover, the concept of a free market assumes rational actors seeking profit. that doesn't appear to be the case here, as profit is being forgone for ideological reasons.

@Atkins you fail to get my point. I don't care if Twitter would end up sued to death if you removed it's protection. I don't care if gab is dead if Twitter dies to. I know this is strange for people these days but we got along just fine before Twitter. And I don't think Twitter is even a net good for communication

who are you to tell people how they can and cannot communicate?

I wouldn't be telling anyone anything

I'd let people make their pleasure or displeasure known and felt

you are advocating for a policy that would destroy the ability of social media to exist, and you know it. you just said you don't care.

without protection from liability for the posts made by their users, social media sites could not exist. they would be sued into oblivion. you know this.

and you are OK with it because you personally don't like certain platforms.

You miss the point where I said I am for updating the old platform protection so that if social media doesn't curate, it is protected

who defines what qualifies as curation?

What publishers do

Decide what can and cannot be written

Decide what writers on their staff can and cannot say

They do that, they can get sued for what their writers write.