Fixing the internet by THG

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A Terms of Service agreement is a legal document that helps you set out the rules and guidelines that your users or visitors must agree to in order to use your website or app. It helps to limit your legal liability while maintaining control over your platform. May 12, 2024

A legitimate terms of service agreement is legally binding and may be subject to change. Companies can enforce the terms by refusing service. Customers can enforce by filing a lawsuit or arbitration case if they can show they were actually harmed by a breach of the terms.

Terms of service should include user rights and responsibilities. The ToS should also be transparent about all activities of the service that have significance for users, such as details of what the service does with user data as well as how the service maintains user privacy and security.

There you have it. We, our government, will sue them.

In particular, who are you referring to?

I believe yesterday I heard a statistic that if every human adult were to have taken the time to read and understand every contract they've signed by clicking on "I Agree", it would take nearly 2 years out of their lives.

That shit needs to stop. We don't need to be signing 80 page documents to sign up for an email account or set up our bank accounts online.

On top of that, no company should ever be given the ability to "upgrade" those terms whenever they feel like it and force you to abide them when it's not what you originally agreed to.

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Tuesday, September 17, 2024 7:41 PM

Apples and Oranges. An agreement was made. For lack of a more enlightened way of saying it, it was agreed that those with platforms, like YouTube, X, would police what they allowed to be on their platforms. A reference point would be, you cannot burn a cross on your property because it is considered hate speech. They have not honored their agreement, so it is time to take em to court.

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Tuesday, September 17, 2024 8:08 PM

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Apples and Oranges. An agreement was made. For lack of a more enlightened way of saying it, it was agreed that those with platforms, like YouTube, X, would police what they allowed to be on their platforms. A reference point would be, you cannot burn a cross on your property because it is considered hate speech. They have not honored their agreement, so it is time to take em to court.

T

Oh. I see. You were coming at this issue from a pro-censorship Democrat angle. You weren't worried about people signing their lives away to Chinese corporations to watch TikTok videos or buy cheap shit on TEMU.

My mistake.

Section 230 protects YouTube and X. The US Government can't do anything about it.

The only time they aren't protected is when they make themselves publishers, rather than platforms. This is behavior that outfits that are run by Left Wing people with an agenda engage in constantly. Silencing opinions from anybody who doesn't agree with the current Establishment narrative makes you a Publisher, and revokes your Section 230 shield. This is the behavior that Twitter engaged in every day on behalf of Democrats while Trump was President and at the behest of the Biden* administration after 2020.

Out of the two companies now. Google would have the most to worry about since they still currently do actively engage in censorship for the Left, but it is nowhere near as heavy-handed as it was at Twitter before Musk bought it.

In the meantime, I keep hearing about how dangerous people who vote for Trump are going to be, yet all of these recent school shootings have been committed by transgendered left-wingers, you've tried to kill Trump not once, but twice before an election, and unchecked immigration has made every major metropolitan area in the country dangerous.

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Tuesday, September 17, 2024 8:25 PM

Also...

The ONLY things that companies who are shielded by Section 230 protections are required to dump resources into keeping off their platforms, because children engage on those platforms, is sex stuff... and obviously CP. Also, unless the site is not intended for children, there shall be no videos showing excessive violence or actual murders/executions. I'm sure people try uploading these things to these sites all the time, but at least from my experience, I don't ever see any content in these two categories on either site. Occasionally I have seen uncensored videos of guys shooting somebody who was trying to rob their store or restaurant, but if you ever want to see that again you'd better download it fast because the bots will find it and remove it.

Secondary to that would be reporting anyone to the authorities who were actively recruiting people and setting up meetings to get together with the intent to physically harm anybody.

That is IT. Period.

Anybody who is arguing that speech they don't agree with gets censored is one of the bad guys. It doesn't matter what the reason is.

There is no justification for censorship. You don't get to say you live in a free society when every adult in that society has their beliefs silenced, or even worse... they get punished for even trying to express them.

We can NEVER allow either "side" to criminalize speech in any form.

That's what China does, Ted. It's what Russia does.

And when I first signed up to this site and started ripping GWB and his administrations asses to shreds, it was the Republican Party that was trying to gain that power. I don't trust Republicans at all. But it's not their "side" that's blatantly trying to take that power in 2024. They're very happy to let the Democrats hold the football for a while on this one while they take a break. They're all getting in line to vote for Kamala as we speak.

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Tuesday, September 17, 2024 8:37 PM

Gavin Newsom signs election ‘deepfake’ ban in rebuke to Elon Musk

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the country’s toughest law banning digitally altered political “deepfakes” on Tuesday, following through on a vow to act after rebuking Elon Musk for sharing a doctored video of Vice President Kamala Harris.

The new California law — which will take effect before the November election — channels rising alarm about artificial intelligence’s capacity to disrupt elections by sowing misinformation, with voters increasingly confronted with deepfake images and audio impersonating candidates. Musk, who owns X, stoked that debate when he shared the AI-altered video of Harris in July, drawing Newsom’s public promise to prohibit similar practices.

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Tuesday, September 17, 2024 8:40 PM

You’re probably seeing more social media propaganda, but don’t blame the bots

Bots commonly shoulder the blame for social media propaganda, but a recent study out of the U.K. suggests not only that organized political misinformation campaigns have more than doubled in the last two years, but that bots take second place to human-run manipulation.

The Global Disinformation Order study, conducted by the University of Oxford, found evidence of social media manipulation by a government agency or political party in 70 countries, an increase from 48 in 2018 and 28 in 2017. The study has been collecting data annually since 2017, but suggests political propaganda has leveraged social media for the last decade.

The study, co-authored by Samantha Bradshaw and Phillip N. Howard, tallies up reports from around the world on cyber troops, defined as “government or political party actors tasked with manipulating public opinion online.” While the report focuses on propaganda that can be traced back to a government agency, politician, or political parties, the researchers found formal coordination with private communication firms, and in more than 40% of the countries, civic organizations and citizens.

Much of propaganda is created by actual people: 87% of the countries use human accounts compared to the 80% of countries using bots. In some cases, the study even identified countries hiring student or youth groups for computational propaganda, including Russia and Israel.

The increase in countries with organized misinformation is likely partially an increase in activity but is also inflated by the increasing ability to detect such activity. “The number of cases we identified was the most surprising thing about this year’s study. Partially, the growth has to do with more state actors seeing social media as a tool of geopolitical power,” Bradshaw, study co-author and researcher at the Computational Propaganda Project, told Digital Trends. “But not all of the cases were new, per se. Many were older examples that were uncovered by journalists and other independent researchers, who are now equipped with better tools and a better vocabulary for identifying instances of computational propaganda in their own country context.”

This year, the researchers also identified a new category of accounts used for manipulation — in addition to human accounts, bot accounts, and “cyborg” accounts that use both, 7% of the countries hacked or stole real accounts to use in their campaigns. Guatemala, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Uzbekistan were among the countries using hacked or stolen accounts.

More than half of the countries with evidence of political propaganda — 45 out of 70 — used the tactics during the elections. Among those examples, the study suggests, are politicians with fake followers, targeted ads using manipulated media, and micro-targeting.

So what type of information are the campaigns using? Attacking political opposition was the most widespread, in 89% of the countries, followed by spreading pro-government or pro-party propaganda and 34% spreading information designed to create division.

While nearly 75% used tactics like memes, fake news, and videos, the tactics also fell under more covert types of manipulation beyond the media that’s shared. About 68% used state-sponsored trolls to attack opponents, such as journalists and activists. Many also used the reporting tools to censor speech, hoping the automated process will remove the content that doesn’t violate any platform rules. Another 73% percent of the countries flood hashtags in order to make a message more widespread.

Most of the cyber troop activity remains on the biggest social network, Facebook, but the researchers saw an increase in campaigns on platforms focused on photos and video, including Instagram and YouTube. The researchers also saw increased activity on WhatsApp.

The United States ranked among the “high cyber troop capacity” group, which indicates a full-time operation with a big budget focusing on both domestic and foreign propaganda. The report suggests the U.S. uses disinformation, data, and artificial amplification of content from human, bot, and cyborg (or mixed human-bot) accounts. The study also showed evidence the U.S. used all five messaging categories included in the study: Support, attack the opposition, distract, driving divisions, and suppression.

Bradshaw says that social media companies should do more to create a better place to connect and discuss politics. “Determining whether a post is part of a manipulation campaign is no easy task. It often requires looking at broad trends across social media and the conversation that is taking place about a particular topic,” she said.

While Bradshaw says detecting misinformation shouldn’t be left solely to the user, some misinformation can be picked up by looking for accounts that post in multiple languages, conducting reverse image searches, and using free online tools to detect automated accounts.

The 2019 study highlights changes in political propaganda that existed long before the internet, but has likely been leveraging social media for a decade. The study authors end the report with a question: "Are social media platforms really creating a space for public deliberation and democracy? Or are they amplifying content that keeps citizens addicted, disinformed, and angry?”

If you can read this, and yes understand it, and still believe we should do nothing to protect ourselves from this, then there is no hope for you.

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Tuesday, September 17, 2024 8:49 PM

Section 230’s protections are not absolute.

It does not protect companies that violate federal criminal law. It does not protect companies that create illegal or harmful content. Nor does Section 230 protect companies from intellectual property claims.

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Tuesday, September 17, 2024 10:11 PM

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Section 230’s protections are not absolute.

It does not protect companies that violate federal criminal law. It does not protect companies that create illegal or harmful content. Nor does Section 230 protect companies from intellectual property claims.

They're not absolute.

But they are a LOT stronger than your legacy media would like them to be.

They should have all stayed the fuck off of YouTube and stopped trying to ruin it for everyone else. The internet was so much better in the 2000's than it is today.

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Tuesday, September 17, 2024 10:12 PM

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If you can read this, and yes understand it, and still believe we should do nothing to protect ourselves from this, then there is no hope for you.

You post clickbait and propaganda every day, Ted.

I don't call for anybody to ban any of it. I just shame you for it.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 1:29 AM

All I'm telling you is that I'm sure the NeoCons and the Bush Administration would have loved to have what you're hoping is going to happen, happen.

And if your Democrats are successful passing any of it, those NeoCons that are all voting for Kamala Harris will be more than happy to use that when they're back in power. And so will Raytheon.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 3:32 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Section 230’s protections are not absolute.

It does not protect companies that violate federal criminal law. It does not protect companies that create illegal or harmful content. Nor does Section 230 protect companies from intellectual property claims.

I may be splitting hairs, but platforms don't CREATE content. They only host it. AFA intellectual property claims ... this is a platform. You would hold Haken responsible for the copyrighted material that gets posted here?

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 4:07 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Hillary wants to criminalize free speech.

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Hillary Clinton Calls for Prosecutions, Lawsuits Against Americans Who Spread ‘Disinformation’

The Justice Department has alleged that a number of conservative influencers were unwitting tools of a Russian propaganda campaign.

The Kings (and Queens) of England had well-developed reactions to opposition: If you threatened to create any sort of opposition movement, you were hung. It didn't matter if you were a lowly peasant; the Crown had spies and informers eveywhere.

That's where our nursery rhymes came from: they are actually coded protests. "Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean" was actually protest against rapacious taxes.

Every time a New World colonist grumbled against the East India Company, or taxes, or the King of England, they could have been arrested for sedition.

In creating a Republic, the Founding Fathers (some of them, anyway) thought long snd hard about how NOT to recreate the same tyranny that existed in England, and their first remedy was FREEDOM OF SPEECH- the right to openly criticize the government.

It doesn't matter if what someone says is right, or wrong, or if their opinion rhymes with somebody else's somewhere else. In fact some of the FF's best ideas opinions came from the French enlightenment. (I'm sure the King of England considered it treason. )

Anybody who doesn't understand how fundamental freedom of speech is to liberty really doesn't understand what America is all about. Anyone who promotes government censorship doesn't deserve citizenship. If they really like censorship that much, maybe they should move to N Korea.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 4:41 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

from a prediction thread

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Trump says (but who knows if he means it) that he will veto the defense bill unless 230 is terminated:

Donald J. Trump AT realDonaldTrump
Very sadly for our Nation, it looks like Senator
AT
JimInhofe
will not be putting the Section 230 termination clause into the Defense Bill. So bad for our National Security and Election Integrity. Last chance to ever get it done. I will VETO!
10:37 PM · Dec 3, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1334718387583377408

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 8:04 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

JAYNZE, a more objective commet

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But there is opposition to the law from across the political spectrum: both Trump and President-Elect Joe Biden have called for the repeal of Section 230. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has called the law a “gift” to the tech industry that could be taken away. Wyden, now a senator, has said that tech companies have not done enough to get rid of “slime” online.

To many Democrats, the law allows tech companies to avoid doing more to combat hate speech and disinformation online. To Trump and some other Republicans, it shields them from consequences for censoring conservative voices.

So.
Dems call for censorship.
Trump is against selective censorship by corporations.

The ironic thing, freedom of speech allows people (like you) to lie about public figures (like Trump).
Freedom of speech allows Hillary to advocate against freedom of speech.
And some boneheaded law clerk decided back in 1880 that corporations have the same "rights" as people.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 2:49 PM

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Section 230’s protections are not absolute.

It does not protect companies that violate federal criminal law. It does not protect companies that create illegal or harmful content. Nor does Section 230 protect companies from intellectual property claims.

I may be splitting hairs, but platforms don't CREATE content. They only host it. AFA intellectual property claims ... this is a platform. You would hold Haken responsible for the copyrighted material that gets posted here?

Bingo. There you go.

Imagine Haken, who has kept this site up years beyond its actual usefulness to anybody besides half a dozen people gets thrown in prison for 20 years and has to pay $500k in fines for all of the pirated movies, TV shows, books and comic books that Second has posted here.

That's not going to happen, because he's protected by 230.

My only concern is that if anybody did have a problem with it and if Haken ever got a letter from a lawfirm about all of the pirate links that Second posted everywhere, Haken is just going to shut the site down. He's not going to take the time to pour through every post that was ever made here to remove pirate links. Chances are, there are many other pirate links from the early days posted by a lot of people.

Just because he's protected, doesn't mean that somebody couldn't take him to court. Court is expensive and court eats up a lot of your life. Unless that was a hill that Haken was willing to die on, my guess is that this site just goes black for the last time overnight.

Also, with your definition of what a platform is above, this is how a company can change from a platform to a publisher by choosing which content it will allow people to post and which content it won't based off of political ideology. At that point it has an active hand in the process of what information is put on display. Then it loses its 230 shield.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 2:51 PM

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And some boneheaded law clerk decided back in 1880 that corporations have the same "rights" as people.

That is one of the worst decisions our country has ever made.

One that I almost never hear anybody mention at all.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 2:57 PM

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
from a prediction thread

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Originally posted by second:
Trump says (but who knows if he means it) that he will veto the defense bill unless 230 is terminated:

Donald J. Trump AT realDonaldTrump
Very sadly for our Nation, it looks like Senator
AT
JimInhofe
will not be putting the Section 230 termination clause into the Defense Bill. So bad for our National Security and Election Integrity. Last chance to ever get it done. I will VETO!
10:37 PM · Dec 3, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1334718387583377408

I had a whole thread about this one. It wasn't the only thing I disagree with Trump on over the years, but it was by far the thing I disagreed with the most.

See how Ted and the people he supports would be a whole lot happier about their control over the flow of information had Trump signed that for them? I do hope Trump has educated himself a bit about the issue or puts some younger, tech-savvy people in his cabinet that can advise him on these things.

I don't trust ANYBODY over the age of 50 to be making any laws regarding the internet. These people have no clue what they're even legislating.

Personally, I think that Section 230 was a happy accident that went in our favor only because the old people in congress that passed it didn't realize how much it protected free speech and what problems that might cause their never-ending quest for absolute power down the road.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 4:57 PM

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Section 230’s protections are not absolute.

It does not protect companies that violate federal criminal law. It does not protect companies that create illegal or harmful content. Nor does Section 230 protect companies from intellectual property claims.

I may be splitting hairs, but platforms don't CREATE content. They only host it. AFA intellectual property claims ... this is a platform. You would hold Haken responsible for the copyrighted material that gets posted here?

I don't know but, Fox news had to pay dominion $787.5M million-dollar fine for spreading lies and propaganda.

Alex Jones same thing for Sandy Hook. It was determined what he was saying was harmful to others. Again, I don't know.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 5:04 PM

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I don't know but, Fox news had to pay an 800 million dollar fine due in large part to Tucker Carlson spreading lies and propaganda. They are about to be fined another billion for lying about the voting machines.

Alex Jones same thing for Sandy Hook. It was determined what he was saying was harmful to others. Again, I don't know.

Right. You don't know.

Fox News and Info Wars would both be considered publishers.

It's really not that hard a concept to understand, but I do realize that mental blocks can get in the way. I'm trying to understand why you don't appear to be grasping the nuances of this issue.

If we were to make it so difficult for any social media platform to keep going without completely whitewashing everything so only the people in the government and media can decide on any given day what can and cannot be said, then free speech is dead.

Think of this site specifically. There wasn't even expensive AI back when this site was created. Any policing done anywhere online was done manually by other human beings. If the rules were set up back in 2002 in a way that you are proposing would "fix" the internet now, there would never have been any political discussions on this platform whatsoever. No RWED.

And Haken would have either needed to find a lot of volunteers or paid people to scour the new posts daily to remove any links to pirated content.

My guess is that this site as well as tens of thousands of other niche websites that were made for various fanbases and interests would never have been created in the first place because of the potential that you could lose everything because of what somebody else said on your website.

And to play Devil's Advocate, I'm also worried about AI and deepfakes and TRUE misinformation. By all means... that actually IS one of the things that our Government is charged with combating. So do it. Go after people from foreign nations that are putting out bad info and hold them accountable.

But do not EVER allow them to tell you what you can and cannot say as an individual. The moment you give them that power they're going to start telling you that a lot of the ideas that you have aren't allowed either.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 5:15 PM

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Section 230’s protections are not absolute.

It does not protect companies that violate federal criminal law. It does not protect companies that create illegal or harmful content. Nor does Section 230 protect companies from intellectual property claims.

I may be splitting hairs, but platforms don't CREATE content. They only host it. AFA intellectual property claims ... this is a platform. You would hold Haken responsible for the copyrighted material that gets posted here?

HOUSTON (AP) — Bombastic conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to liquidate his personal assets as he owes $1.5 billion for his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which killed 20 first graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut, was a hoax.

But the immediate future of his Infowars media platform,

https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-infowars-bankruptcy-sandy-hook-0
c3576e3c4bd853ac2cc5342118fca8c

Oh look Jack. It says media platform. Well, what do ya know? And his show was on the internet. Go figure...

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 5:19 PM

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Originally posted by THG:
Section 230’s protections are not absolute.

It does not protect companies that violate federal criminal law. It does not protect companies that create illegal or harmful content. Nor does Section 230 protect companies from intellectual property claims.

I may be splitting hairs, but platforms don't CREATE content. They only host it. AFA intellectual property claims ... this is a platform. You would hold Haken responsible for the copyrighted material that gets posted here?

I don't know but, Fox news had to pay dominion $787.5M million-dollar fine for spreading lies and propaganda.

Alex Jones same thing for Sandy Hook. It was determined what he was saying was harmful to others. Again, I don't know.

T

Oh look Jack. It says media platform. Well, what do ya know? And his show was on the internet. Go figure...

T

AP misspoke. I can throw more than a few possible reasons why they would have done that, but we could just call it a simple misnomer and human error. Or maybe since this wasn't specifically an article about Section 230, they didn't bother to make the proper distinction.

Info Wars is a Publisher. Info Wars is not a Platform. This is an objective fact.

Now... If they have a comment section at Info Wars, there's a great chance that the comment section portion of the site was protected under Section 230. At least I hope it is. I would hope that was the case for all Media outfits and local news organizations that allow for public discourse to take place. I wouldn't even want New York Times to ever get in deep shit for things that users on their sites say in the comment section. In a future where news agencies can get sued for a $100 Million because of something that you or I said on there, that's the immediate end of any of them allowing comment sections overnight, and we're going right back to a time when information was a one-way exchange over TV and radio with zero input from people without the power and the money.

But the news portion, which is 99% of Info Wars' website is all published work, in written, audio and video format, which is created by paid employees of a company with a mission statement and an agenda, just like all the other media outlets are.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 5:31 PM

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Originally posted by THG:
Section 230’s protections are not absolute.

It does not protect companies that violate federal criminal law. It does not protect companies that create illegal or harmful content. Nor does Section 230 protect companies from intellectual property claims.

I may be splitting hairs, but platforms don't CREATE content. They only host it. AFA intellectual property claims ... this is a platform. You would hold Haken responsible for the copyrighted material that gets posted here?

I don't know but, Fox news had to pay dominion $787.5M million-dollar fine for spreading lies and propaganda.

Alex Jones same thing for Sandy Hook. It was determined what he was saying was harmful to others. Again, I don't know.

T

HOUSTON (AP) — Bombastic conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to liquidate his personal assets as he owes $1.5 billion for his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which killed 20 first graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut, was a hoax.

But the immediate future of his Infowars media platform,

https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-infowars-bankruptcy-sandy-hook-0
c3576e3c4bd853ac2cc5342118fca8c

Oh look Jack. It says media platform. Well, what do ya know? And his show was on the internet. Go figure...

T

AP Misspoke. I can throw more than a few possible reasons why they would have done that, but we could just call it a simple misnomer and human error. Or maybe since this wasn't specifically an article about Section 230, they didn't bother to make the proper distinction.

Info Wars is a Publisher. Info Wars is not a Platform. This is an objective fact.

Now... If they have a comment section at Info Wars, there's a great chance that the comment section portion of the site was protected under Section 230. At least I hope it is. I would hope that was the case for all Media outfits and local news organizations that allow for public discourse to take place. I wouldn't even want New York Times to ever get in deep shit for things that users on their sites say in the comment section.

But the news portion, which is 99% of Info Wars' website is all published work, in written, audio and video format, which is created by employees of a company with a mission statement and an agenda, just like all the other media outlets are.

Like I said. Section 230 does not protect anyone if what they do is harmful to others. I.E. Alex Jones and Sandy Hook. Just like I said Jack. An internet platform is an internet platform. All Media outlets are held accountable if what they report was harmful to others and done with malice. This shit with the internet is relatively new so it is learn as you go. And remember, we have other countries spreading bullshit in an attempt to hurt us. We need to take this on.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 5:35 PM

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Section 230’s protections are not absolute.

It does not protect companies that violate federal criminal law. It does not protect companies that create illegal or harmful content. Nor does Section 230 protect companies from intellectual property claims.

I may be splitting hairs, but platforms don't CREATE content. They only host it. AFA intellectual property claims ... this is a platform. You would hold Haken responsible for the copyrighted material that gets posted here?

I don't know but, Fox news had to pay dominion $787.5M million-dollar fine for spreading lies and propaganda.

Alex Jones same thing for Sandy Hook. It was determined what he was saying was harmful to others. Again, I don't know.

T

HOUSTON (AP) — Bombastic conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to liquidate his personal assets as he owes $1.5 billion for his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which killed 20 first graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut, was a hoax.

But the immediate future of his Infowars media platform,

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Oh look Jack. It says media platform. Well, what do ya know? And his show was on the internet. Go figure...

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Like I said. Section 230 does not protect anyone if what they do is harmful to others. I.E. Alex Jones and Sandy Hook. Just like I said Jack. An internet platform is an internet platform. This is still new so it is learn as you go. All Media outfits are held accountable if what they report was harmful to others and done with malice.

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It doesn't matter what your opinion on Sandy Hook was. Info Wars is a Publisher and is not protected by Section 230.

An internet Platform IS an internet Platform. These include but are not limited to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and FireFlyFans. They have Section 230 protections.

Info Wars is a Publisher. ALL Media Outfits are Publishers. They very much are held accountable for what they put out there. They do not have Section 230 protections.

Currently, there is a two-tiered system in place where only "news" from one side is being fact-checked or litigated against, but those winds of change blow all the time. If we get another GWB style administration watch the people at NYT and MSNBC have their balls cut off just like Alex Jones did.

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InfoWars is an American far-right conspiracy theory and fake news website owned by Alex Jones.

He hosts The Alex Jones broadcasted Show from Austin Texas

Jones's website, InfoWars, promotes conspiracy theories and fake news

Here you go dummy. Website, broadcaster, fake news and conspiracy theorist. Exactly what I started this thread to talk about. And don't look now, he was fined a billion dollars.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 6:02 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Alex Jones is a content CREATOR, not a platform.

And he wasn't fined (by the government), he was sued, by individuals.

Dood, what is so hard about the concepts "platform" and "host"?

A plain-English interpretation of those words should tell you all you need to know.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024 6:20 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

BTW, the government has no business, or should have no business, censoring or approving even Infowars, except where Infowars violates a criminal law.

Free speech means free speech. It's a lot broader than you'd apparently like, THUGR

We've been thru this before. Apparently it didn't stick

Quote:
The Limits of Free Speech

You can say that whites are the superior race.
Or that women are better than men,
You can say that Jews control the world.
Or that you want to see the world genocided "down to the last hundred".
You can claim the earth is flat.
Or that last summer's riots were "mostly peaceful".
You can spin endless conspiracy theories (for example, Russian collusion) or endless conspiracy facts.

You can claim any fool thing .... or wise thing... that you want. It's protected free speech. And the answer to stupid speech is rebuttal, not censorship or defamation.

There are some thing you CAN'T do:

You can't slag someone's reputation by making false claims about them, incite IMMINENT violence, defraud people, distribute child pornography, threaten people, violate copyright laws, or plan illegal behavior. Advertising is also not protected free speech.

I know that free speech disturbs a bunch of libtards here, and that they want to get rid of it right away, but free speech clause protects them, too, when they post hate speech or idiocies.

It doesn't protect defamation, tho. Might want to keep that in mind.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=64170

So yeah, you might want to stop defaming me as a Russian troll. Otherwise you might wind up like Alex Jones.

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I fail to understand how Ted is not grasping this concept.

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