Null 🥝 Joshua Moon Megathread

[Gaijin Goombah]

Kiwifarms is now a forum about American christofascism applied to petty culture war issues. I mean, it has been that for a while, but the fact that nearly every feature is about some flavor of the week culture war incident and the Saint Kirk bans have cemented it as so.

 

[Nektar Geist]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2003149300700971338

Josh on X: "Sadly, my @SenAshleyMoody is co-sponoring this Section 230 repeal they're forcing thru Christmas. Broke out the most powerful stamps I have. Hope you will read the USIPS post and write reps. Price of freedom is eternal vigilance. One day

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joshy. Quoting Thomas Jefferson, there.

 

[ipreferpickles]

and the Saint Kirk bans have cemented it as so.

I'm curious what you mean by this, because I don't think anyone was permanently banned for mocking Kirk on KF.

 

[Gaijin Goombah]

I'm curious what you mean by this, because I don't think anyone was permanently banned for mocking Kirk on KF.

Maybe not, but there were threadbans.

 

[TheCIAGlowsInTheDark]

I don't think Section 230 is going to get fully repealed anytime soon because the Internet as a whole (whether it's Big Tech companies like Google to small niche communities like Kiwi Farms) still benefit from its liability protections and most likely Big Tech will lobby their way to kill any efforts to fully end Section 230 in Congress (lobbying groups like NetChoice are still big players in how Congress shapes laws for the Internet as we know it). Trump doesn't even fully agree with completely regulating the Internet as he just signed an executive order recently that strips the states of regulating AI and letting the White House and the federal government lead the path on AI through the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution for a more freer and less regulated AI landscape.

The liability protections provided by Section 230 is literately the reason why the Internet as we know it exists to begin with; it's the only reason why websites like Kiwi Farms, 4chan, and even Onionfarms, and so on haven't been sued into oblivion by obnoxious moralfagging Karens looking to police people for thoughtcrime online.

Most likely this "Bipartisian" effort to repeal Section 230 (which is disingenuous anyway because a bill can have a fuck ton of Democrats supporting it but only have a few Republicans on board as "Bipartisian" is being really dishonest) will most likely die in Congress citing the obvious flaws that by not providing online platforms liability protections will lead to more censorship.

So what do I think may happen instead? We may get Trump's vision to have an Internet Bill of Rights be enacted in Congress instead which would grant online platforms liability protections from the content they host while at the same time penalize Big Tech for in engaging in bad faith censorship. This is what I think may happen.

I don't see Section 230 fully going away anytime soon but I do see reforms with the controversial law where you will still have liability protections for online platforms only this time Big Tech can't abuse their power to censor things they don't like anyway.