US Senator moves to file Section 230 repeal: What is the law? How will a ban affect your free speech on the internet? | Today News
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Section 230, passed in 1996 as part of the Telecommunications Act, has become the centre of a intense political debate in the recent years.
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how would repealing Section 230 affect the fediverse specifically?

  • It would destroy it. And ATproto. And decentralized platforms in general. And open-source software and hardware in general as I could imagine MS getting the green light to destroy Linux because they deem it to be a threat due to repealing Sec. 230.
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