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whatsapp groups supplant most of the above really.
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White House renews call to ‘remove’ Section 230 liability shield
The president can’t get rid of the Section 230 liability shield without Congressional action.
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Would removing section 230 open up all the right wing mentler socials to prosecution?
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Yes - because section 230 gives protection as long as content is removed. (I think).
It would be interesting to see what happens if its removed.
White House renews call to ‘remove’ Section 230 liability shield
The president can’t get rid of the Section 230 liability shield without Congressional action.
It should never have been given to websites.
They should have created a different liability law for websites/networks.
Because the protection given to social media sites means they can't be prosecuted if someone uploads underage images. They don't have to alert the police, nor hand over the information. Because the social media site itself is not liable.
So a situation gets created like that Facebook moderator mentioned in a video earlier in the year, were its not in Facebooks interest to notify the police of illegal activity because its harms the reputation of the site.
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I agree but we should have one in the UK as well IMO. Not sure if we do actually.
We can either give people protection as long as the content is removed, or we go full blown investigation and start prosecutions. The first 5x people in the headlines front page and people will start to think about what they are posting online, and their attitude might change.
If someone runs servers, then they are responsible for the content and server owners can be prosecuted if they don't control the bad data.
It's what I would do..
That includes websites, social media, servers, illegal content sharing, hacking e.t.c and everything else tech based that I can't think of.
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Such a promising start.
It's been around since 2016. They're just not used to this kind of attention.
I've been surprised that bitchute and OnlyFans are UK based companies.
I think UK law is a lot better at dealing with situations like this because we've had to fight for our speech expression rights.
In the US they just assumed those rights with no qualification.
I have no idea which server to sign up to. I see there's a UK one but the site for that seems borked on desktop no matter what browser I try. Even then, looking at the other servers, there's not really any that strongly interests me.
I just signed up on the main one, mastodon.social, or failing that the Scottish one. A lot of servers are getting absolutely hammered at the moment, because they're not used to this user influx. I imagine this problem will solve itself in a few days, or at least I would hope so.
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I looked at them all and went with the UK one. Hopefully it will be back soon.
Didn't realise there was a main one, thanks. Oddly enough when I went to sign up on the main Mastodon site linked in OP and it went to the server list, mastodon.social wasn't there.
Just realised your instances link also contains more lists for other servers. This really is reminding me the old IRC days...
If I understand it right, I can follow users on other Mastodon servers, so it shouldn't matter which server I join unless I want to share content on there?
Yes, I found this too, not sure why. Maybe so it doesn't get too overloaded? Not sure.
You're right really. It seems to be that unless you want to be part of a specific focused community, a lot of people are just hopping on whichever server they can and going from there.
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Ah you're right, just tried on mastodon.social and it comes up saying it's currently not possible. I'll wait a few days and try again.
It took some time for my confirmation email to come. I think it was an hour or two. Things are just really clogged up at the moment, clearly.
Imagine if someone rebuilt Twitter, but without all the features that make it popular, useful, and user friendly.
That's Mastodon.
It was never built for the masses. It was built for the FOSS community. Now it's seeing an unprecedented surge in popularity due to the happenings with Twitter.
This is why it won't be the new Twitter, it's not made for regular social media users, since they're not used to its methods of operation. But it is very effective as a more private social network which is more regulatable and with no algorithms or ads.
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if the normals go Mastodon then I will jump ship too.
Honestly, I think a lot of people will join, then they will leave when they realise it's not for them. It's just not meant to be a mass social network in the way the people are used to.
I made this thread since it's in the news a lot at the moment, and I thought it best that any potential discussion be shepherded into one place.
But I think the kind of person it will work for is the most geeky. Your average Twitter normie will not find anything in it for then, and will find the sign-up and operation process awfully confusing.