Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death calls on Facebook

Post by SideburnsOfDoom » Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 2:16 PM UTC

yucky wrote: post #370

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #369

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Zelensky was elected in 2019, five years later, does that change yours? Are you even going to talk about that at all? > So no, that is 100% incorrect. Funny that Wikipedia lists a lot of things happening in December and January too. "100% wrong" is misleading as always. Looks like the Ukrainian people took the initiative on this one.

Those goal posts must be getting heavy. So to recap, the US was involved in the 2014 coup and picked their guy to take power in Ukraine. Learning that, your opinion has not changed at all. So, now we see what this is.

Post by anamax » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:54 AM UTC

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In the US, companies get 1st amendment protections as if they were people, but don't get any of the liability due to SEction 230 of the communications decency act. Giving companies 1st amendment rights was ridiculous, but then giving them protections beyond the 1st amendment that no normal person gets was giving them too much power to control speech in society.

Repealing 230 would force companies to moderate much more heavily so as to avoid liability. So if the goal is to reduce moderation, repealing Section 230 won't solve that. Not giving companies 1st amendment rights is very troubling to me because ultimately a company is just a collection of people with a governance structure. Compelling a jewish coffee shop owner to allow someone to post anti-semitic notices within th…