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Earn IT Act Is More Dangerous For Internet Privacy Than FOSTA

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It would never cease to amaze me how many bills that are proposed as solutions to truly abhorrent things, like child porn and sex trafficking, are in reality just trojan horses for something else.

Someone once said, "Terrorism and kiddy porn are the root password to the constitution."

Well, duh! That's what it's supposed to do--stifle speech somebody doesn't like. Especially Republicans.

There is a pretty even split in support at this time.

> Led by U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), the legislation is also cosponsored by Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Bob Casey (D-PA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), John Kennedy (R-LA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), John Cornyn (R-TX), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Susan Collins (R-ME), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), and Mark Warner (D-VA). Representatives Ann Wagner (R-MO) and Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) introduced companion legislation in the House of Representatives. [1]

They don't seem to see it as a partisan concern. Why do you?

1. https://www.portman.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/portm...

The solution is probably to dismantle Section 230. Publishers need to be accountable for what they publish. No more picking and choosing when to be accountable. And yes this might destroy social media as we know it, but that's a good thing. Social media is a cancer on society.

Would also destroy forums.

Disagreed. I ran a forum for years and knew that moderation was my responsibility.

Why does everyone always get this backwards? Section 230 is what allows moderation without assuming liability for the content. Completely unmoderated forums do not require section 230. Moderated forums do.

Keyword in parent comment being "dismantle".

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