7mo ago

[opinion] By sunsetting Section 230, Congress could be about to break the internet as we know it

fortune.com By sunsetting Section 230, Congress could be about to break the internet as we know it

'The 26 words that created the internet' as we know it could soon be erased, warns the Consumer Technology Association.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/17713203

“Backed by two powerful house leaders, the proposed “Legislative Proposal to Sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act” would eliminate the protections granted to internet platform providers under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. “

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Paywall free

IPFS let's gooooooo
- Also, when can we get Internet over Radio? Good luck stopping waves bouncing off the stratosphere. Such a tech would immediately end censorship and lawfare using physics and science.
  
  Mesh networks have been made using ham radios! It's not ready for the general public since you need a ham operators lisence & their range is limited by line of sight. But if you own a large property, you can network your own space using the tech. It's also a good back up in the case of a large scale infrastructure disruption.
  Heres a link :)
  
  Are there any papers or sources on this? Of course it would be very slow, but I'd be interested to see what proposals exist.

Paywalled article; nuke it and move on unless there's either an archive link or a rehost on somewhere that doesn't cater to capitalists
- Good catch, I add archive links to everything, but doing it by hand right now, so sometimes I miss them.
  Sorry about that.
  Planning on writing a script or something to handle archiving.
  
  Sorry about that.
  No worries. The archive.ph link gave me a Google reCAPTCHA to solve 😱 but the original link was perfectly readable for me. What were the paywall comments about, was it a non EU thing ?
  To extend the link collection here's a WayBackMachine one :
  https://web.archive.org/web/20240604182700/https://fortune.com/2024/06/03/sunsetting-section-230-congress-break-internet-tech-politics/

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