✍️ Sen. Dick Durbin [D-Il] wants to sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects websites and apps from liability for user posts. A repeal "would torpedo independent news sites," our Advocacy Director @seth-stern.bsky.social writes in @chicago.suntimes.com. - ThreadSky

freedom.press • 4 days ago

✍️ Sen. Dick Durbin [D-Il] wants to sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects websites and apps from liability for user posts.

A repeal "would torpedo independent news sites," our Advocacy Director @seth-stern.bsky.social writes in @chicago.suntimes.com.

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kernelkorn420.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don't see why it would torpedo small news sites. They would just have to turn off public comments

howardswinford.bsky.social•4 days ago

Durbin is a useless shit

sar-dar.bsky.social•4 days ago

Why is our total Congress and Senate so much old? No wonder we have problems

timwiseman.bsky.social•4 days ago

Section 230 is vital to free expression on the Internet as it currently exists.

dezaad.bsky.social•4 days ago

With freedom comes responsibility. Responsibility is enforced by accountability. All accountability is removed by section 230. We are left with a cesspool of deception, worse than anything before, and worsening by the day.

speedracerfan.bsky.social•4 days ago

You should get a head start and delete your account

dezaad.bsky.social•3 days ago

Aside from the deception, there is also the idiocy. I stay to counter both. I would only be too happy if it all just shut down.

speedracerfan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thank you for your service

dezaad.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh please. If I thought I deserved accolades, I’d use my real name. Under these circumstances it takes a billion voices to correct a billion voices. Just doing my small part.

timwiseman.bsky.social•4 days ago

That is simply not true. Section 230 simply leaves the accountability with the poster rather than the platform while simultaneously empowering the platform to moderate if it chooses.

dezaad.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trying to hold multitudes accountable for harmful deception is like trying to drink from a firehose. It is disingenuous to claim this is effective accountability.

We were better off before social media. The balance between freedom and responsibility was near perfect. Now there is no balance.

h20bug55.bsky.social•4 days ago

There has to accountability for truth, at least from our government. Felon 47 has no truth and neither dies the current GOP. How do you get the to deal in truth?

h20bug55.bsky.social•4 days ago

There has to accountability for truth, at least from our government. Felon 47 has no truth and neither dies the current GOP. How do you get the to deal in truth?

tyrannysucks.bsky.social•4 days ago

Shocking. Not shocking.

dezaad.bsky.social•4 days ago

It would end social media, and this would be a small price to pay in order to restore sanity. Durbin is right to propose it, but he should have done it long ago. He looks, and probably is, self serving. It will never pass now.

ginabobina1977.bsky.social•4 days ago

Wtf is this sorry excuse for a Democrat?

willoughby12.bsky.social•4 days ago

Dick Durbin needs to retire or be primaried!!!

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