I wrote about how particularly ridiculous it is that Senate Democrats, led by Dick Durbin, think the priority should be repealing Section 230 and undermining the very open internet we need more than ever right now. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/while-democracy-burns-democrats-prioritize-demolishing-section-230/
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Want to hold sites accountable for bad algos? Don't use those sites and support better ones.
More to the point: right now the FCC is controlled by Trump. You want him outlawing "disinfo"? Come on.
WHY would you want to do that?!?
You don't understand 230.
What you propose would HELP BIG TECH. Stop it.
Blue MAGA makes me sick. You'd be saying "wahh keep voting for Republicans" if a D tried to bring Jim Crow laws back and got flak for it from the left.
Now, we could go with this data or any other data (which will just support what this data already does). Or we could go with your vibes.
Pick.
Progressive, meaning a social reformer.
It’s like keeping your grandparents away from phone scams.
https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3lipkucvuc22j
I go back and forth on this a lot. I basically agree with what you've wrote, but I also think putting liability on big tech is fundamental.
Banning algorithmically driven social media feeds though…
We (voters) should get to decide limits.
That’s not my impression at all. Kamala Harris conducted a good, traditional campaign. The Dems lost because they didn’t see what Trump was up to.
People got the change they voted for. Just not the change they expected/hoped.
ALL of the information everyone needed to make an intelligent decision was right there in front of everyone's face.
GTFO with "Dems did this". That's puerile bullshit.
Definitely needs to be primaried.
I've never heard a compelling answer to the question: "do you trust your political opponents with such power" from pro-censorship folks.
The utter lack of even minimal self-reflection is truly amazing.
Josef Goebbles -
Out-of-touch, old, irrelevant, white guys in the Senate are like squatters.
They get comfortable, and it takes a forklift or undertaker to get them out.
Grassley 91
Sanders 82
McConnell 82
Risch 80
Cardin 80
King 79
Durbin 79
Blumenthal 78
Take a look at what they are doing to federal grants to see how that would go.
You are just wrong
D leadership has an uncanny ability to craft and deploy novel footcannons.
Companies pushing engagement bait & bots are making a publishing choice. There's no reason they shouldn't be as responsible as any other publisher
Symbiotic evils
Wouldn’t be surprised if Democrats like Durbin/Blumenthal have something they want to hide so they pull these “think of the kids” bills.
I wouldn’t be surprised also if both of them have some form of dementia as well.
You have it exactly backwards
This has nothing to do with "free market." It has to do w/reality
Republican Collaborators
Vichy Democrats
Don’t forget Trump’s buddy Chuck who’s doing nothing but talking bipartisanship with Nazis and sometimes throwing out some fighting words.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/09/trumps-old-new-york-pal-schumer/
Art I, II, III, IV, amends. I, IV,V, VI, VII, VIII, & XIV.
Pick one and scream it.
A version of that really was a central argument from the forces that took over America, and despite the lack of resemblance to our universe, it worked.
I respect them for their accomplishments, but if they pass this, they all need to be fired.
"Here we have a Democratic leader eagerly collaborating with the very senators actively undermining democracy, on legislation that would further enable their authoritarian aims"