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   Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 03:02:30 JST Joe Ortiz

   This is a very bad ruling from the Third Circuit that could very well blow up the internet. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/29/third-circuits-section-230-tiktok-ruling-deliberately-ignores-precedent-defies-logic/

   #Section230 #internet

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 04:10:49 JST Joe Ortiz

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     • Ash Greytree

     @Ash_Greytree Don't you realize that this ruling affect every single website (especially smaller websites)?

     Without #Section230, the open internet basically dies and only bigger websites can be allowed to exist due to them having the resources to fight such liabilities. Even US-based #Fediverse instances are in danger.

     Also want to leave this here for you to read although my guess it that you won't: https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act/

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     Ash Greytree (ash_greytree@chitter.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 04:10:50 JST Ash Greytree

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     @joeo10 nah, it’s not. Techdirt is just clutching its pearls over the idea of a tech company actually having to face consequences, as is normal for TD.

     Between the articles with Masnick wringing his hands over Musk facing consequences in Brazil, treating the country & its people like their concerns with Twitter don’t matter via both-sides-ing it, and his latest in a long, *long* line of “The Internet will DIE” temper tantrums in that article, it baffles me how people still take him and his site seriously.

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 04:17:30 JST Joe Ortiz

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     • Eric Goldman ☑ (he/him)

     Here's @ericgoldman:

     "Unless the 3rd Circuit en banc quickly and decisively rejects this opinion, it will be celebrated by other judges eager to blow up Section 230 (of which there are many). As a result, I expect this opinion provides another hard shove towards the impending and seemingly inevitable end of #Section230–and the #Internet as we know it."

     https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2024/08/bonkers-opinion-repeals-section-230-in-the-third-circuit-anderson-v-tiktok.htm

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     Robert (rob303@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 03:58:47 JST Robert

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     • Ash Greytree

     @joeo10 @Ash_Greytree My question about Mastodon however is that, since the timelines are neutral and do not "suggest" posts to click on but rather it shows them as is, and as posted in a timeframe. You could try to argue that the Fediverse should no apply to this outcome, unless where servers do use algorithms. (such as Mozilla's)

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 03:58:47 JST Joe Ortiz

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     • Robert

     @Rob303 @Ash_Greytree It really doesn't make a difference since it's hosting content and if 230 does go away that particular instance will be vulnerable to liabilities.

     Fact is that if you're a admin of a US-based Fedi instance right now, you should be flat out worried about this case.