Richard Stallman’s Political Notes – Section 230

Article note: As someone on the board of a hosting cooperative, this is pretty concerning: limiting Section 230 protections for companies where the user is the product might make some sense (I’m still iffy on that too, as it could be similar to the speech bans on folks Alex Jones that have since snowballed into regular censorship for anyone outside of the mainstream), but revoking protections for services the user pays for is extremely dangerous and would have disastrous effects on political dissent.

A proposal to reform section 230 of the CDA would have sweeping disastrous
consequences.

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