And with that, I take my leave.

Benjamin Franklin didn't analyze every ad that was in his newspaper to see if might be defamation

@Zuluzeit later

and 230 reform, if done dumbly, can destroy the internet

Yeah the 230 reform would reduce censorship, not increase it.

Defamation is relevant when it affects the individual defamed... ie Rittenhouse when Biden suggested he was a white supremacist, potentially polluting the jury pool

Haha most laws if done dumbly destroy stuff

basically the "public square" version of 230 reform ... what does this mean for you and your blog?


You have two choices.

1. You can either leave up all comments unmolested.

2. If you delete a single comment, you now must analyze EVERY OTHER COMMENT for legality. Which is actually IMPOSSIBLE to do, because - for example, defamation might require knowledge of facts (i.e if something said is TRUE or FALSE), and this is impossible for a site owner. Furthermore, it would basically require you to hire a lawyer and check every comment for all the laws in all the US.

say helloooo to spam

or pornography

all over your beautiful blog or forum

public square, right?

Not at all. Unless your blog has 70% of all blog traffic lol

OK so that is Barnes' fix to this

most people don't event hink about this

they just talk

Standard definition of monopoly

Yeah nah

but the 70% fix isn't a good one either

if you have a FB page

you are a moderator

on a website

that is a 70% company

your page is a public square

hello spam

hello porn

also I detest treating differently sized companies differently

and I already made the constitutional argument

it is illegal to force companies to do this

just like it would be illegal to restrict a newspaper from deliverying you ads that might be illegal speech

or charging Fedex for delivering blackmail

Multiple arguments there, fave topic of mine, maybe we need a new chat lol

Can we have a Free Speech / Section 230 chat Mr Gruler plis? 😁

@realz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBy9L0gcqGY

@Doc pretty sure I've seen that

I didn't say anything (never helping out the) cops

I said I wouldn't speak to the FBI, even to help them without my lawyer

as for the cops, yes, follow his advice

(tldr; if you kill someone in self defense you want to point out all the evidence so the cops mark it down, and you don't want to come off as a jerk either)

ASP is great

I have Ayoob's books I think