What's stopping you from creating a Facebook account with the sole purpose of pushing people to other websites? @stathelle

Nothing.

It's being done already.

@ManAnimal They must be enforced or you start going down the slippery slope of not enforcing your laws, which erodes the entirety of your legal code.

So you either find a happy medium, in which you adjust them properly.

OR YOU FUCKING ENFORCE THE LAWS.

i agree 100%; but that happens when they write conflicting laws that realistically cannot be enforece uniformly

Then those laws must be reformed.

^^

Yep, nothing, however that takes a lot of effort and power. Power and effort that the big media and tech have. They have the resources to keep people on there, and unless you have a lot more moderates who see the need to switch, the vast majority of Americans won't switch over.

exactly

basically... section 230 needs to be reexamined.. on how it shuld be enforced and so on

Then offer a better product. @stathelle

The product you're offering doesn't seem that good if consumers don't want to use it.

Maybe you should try revisiting it..

And get a better product.

my original point is that if you allow the gov the ability to decide when they can tell private companies who and what they can list, in order to enforce the gov would have to examine EVERYOINE's machine at the slightest accusation

Maybe then people will use it.

that kind of power would be insane to give to the gov

its not the gov enforcing what they can say

its the gov saying they cant restrict what people say

its very different

@Weez consumers can be manipulated all the time as they are by the media. There is a reason we have snake oil laws

@Weez A better product isn't the problem. Effective monopolisation over market shares, the weight of having all the money and the playing field not being fair to the smaller competitors are the problems.

The consumer isn't forced to use Facebook, nor are they being manipulated into.

Which is why every social media company should be broken up

They're using it because it's a good product.

@Weez Well, I'm just saying, the amount of damage that will be done before you can get many people to switch is a lot

level the playing field

so we can see as best as we can WHICH companies are best

@SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck but that's isn't a good idea either because the principle of social media requires that everyone be on there

what you propose unscottty is the gov deciding who and what a company or person can host and if the restriction was fair or not. Even INVESTIGATIONG this would destroy any privacy people hard regarding their hardware

@Zakhan Gab is still running, even with all that "power" and "money" even though the playing field isn't "far"

And it's growing.

@stathelle What damage?

@ManAnimal no it wouldnt because its public

The damage that you already see everywhere

Ah you mean the product changing

if public who pays for it?

whats posted on these sites is publicly available

You don't like that it's changed