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Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoSection 230 is supported by the corporate types since all the big Internet companies would cease to exist without it. This is brain dead boomers not understanding how the Internet works.
slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Nah, they don’t give a shit if it’s gone, because they’ll just pay an army of lawyers to make it go away.
What this does is makes any competition against any established Internet companies impossible for anyone who can’t afford said army of lawyers. That’s why they’re the main driving force behind it. Any new social media startup will swiftly find themselves buried in litigation over the content people post on their site.
It’s far worse than you think.