good thing none of us are panic buying or scalping overpriced hardware…

…right?

i heard this same argument during covid by anti maskers pointing to whackadoodle “researchers” that were presenting “alternative facts” about the dangers of prolonged mask usage and vaccines.

smoking / eating / drinking cannabis products helps me sleep, get my hunger back, have a few laughs, and relax. i dont use it often. but its there when i need it, and its worked wonders for me. this article also ends with them pushing SSRIs. which is hilarious and obviously suspect because the epstein files revealed how SSRIs were pushed heavily because they make people numb and docile to the fucked up world the epstein class created. and that we all live in.

perhaps the best mode of treatment is to fix the system we live in, instead of removing our ability to even feel that its wrong, or have the motivation to do anything but numbly scroll between memes and drones bombing children.

let people smoke pot if they want, its far better than dealing with a bunch of alcoholics and SSRI zombies who cant cum. lmao.

sure it did, diddy

wasnt he in the epstein files a bunch?

so they spent millions attacking and removing hackers from their games, only to allow AI bots to do it for a subscription fee…

iran, can you blow up this data center while you’re at it?

crazy shit man.

i just heard about a nasal spray technology that was recently developed for a BCI (body computer interface) using conductive nano particles that can pass the blood brain barrier.

not sure how it works, but just that it apparantly exists.

like nasal spray neuralink.

not saying this is related or anything, besides having the same delivery system.

crazy times we live in.

kind of missing the forest for the trees here. the issue is in order to make that change and hold these platforms accountable, through changes to section 230, you would then open the door to all platforms being held accountable, and create a new loop hole for more government control of all platforms. this would cause intense censorship and algorithmic control of content, and the means in which it is shared, spread, or created.

the internet is inherently addictive, always has been, always will be. its the greatest technology mankind has ever developed, it connects us all to each other, and the collective library of human knowledge. there is no world where a human brain, adult, or child, does not engage with that level of connectivity without some level of addiction.

ive been watching this for a while now, and the support, timing, and language around it is being engaged by both sides of the political spectrum. which in this particular time period, is extremelly worrisome.

attacking “addictive features” (which i am not saying there isnt room for improvement for) is a foot in the door for further amendments. most people just “think of the chillren” when they see this, and its understandable, we love our kids, so we should as parents limit screen time, or not make it an option at all, kids cant buy their own phines, computers, or pay for wifi, and it takes a few minutes to put parental controls on all your kids devices. besides that, most people are not educated in the subject of internet policy over the last 30 years, or why section 230 is so important. it is quite literally the reason you and i can have this exchange without the government filtering what can and cannot be exchanged.

the fact of the matter is right in the paragraph you quoted

This argument, if successful, could sidestep the companies’ First Amendment shield and Section 230

its not just about the companies, its about section 230, and as a biproduct digital ID requirements by large platforms. which is something needed for a larger agenda that goes beyond the united states government, by the ruling elites of the world. but thats a rabbit hole ill allow you to fall in yourself. the united states just so happens to be the center of digital infrastructure and platforms shared by every country in the planet.

discord, as an example, will soon require users to upload a copy of their ID or a facial scan to use their platform.

“to protect the children”

then every major platform will. for “liability reasons” and to “protect the children”

then the internet as a whole will require it.

“to protect the children”

then you wont be able to do a god damn thing without big brother logging and arresting people left and right for whatever digital crimes the powers that be decide are crimes that week. basically, thought crime.

and platforms from the fediverse, and all over the internet will have to bend the knee, and police content to extremes we havent yet seen. nobody will be anonymous anymore. and resistance goes back to the stone age of hand written letters and secret handshakes under the bridge.

heres a good write up about section 230. the above mentioned article already discusses some of the pushes for digital ID already. in various forms. some more invasive than others.

https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/02/30-years-of-section-230-why-we-still-need-it-for-a-safer-internet/

heres a decent video about the history of the internet, section 230, and implications of this lawsuit and the other actions around section 230. its a bit long, but worth it. if you want a laymans understanding.

https://youtu.be/_eqt8vrtP-U

and below, here is a summary of section 230 from wikipedia.

Summary In the United States, Section 230 is a section of the Communications Act of 1934 that was enacted as part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which is Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and generally provides immunity for online computer services with respect to third-party content generated by their users. At its core, Section 230©(1) provides immunity from liability for providers and users of an “interactive computer service” who publish information provided by third-party users:

No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

Section 230©(2) further provides “Good Samaritan” protection from civil liability for operators of interactive computer services in the voluntary good faith removal or moderation of third-party material the operator “considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.”

Section 230 was developed in response to a pair of lawsuits against online discussion platforms in the early 1990s that resulted in different interpretations of whether the service providers should be treated as publishers, Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co., or alternatively, as distributors of content created by their users, Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc. The section’s authors, Representatives Christopher Cox and Ron Wyden, believed interactive computer services should be treated as distributors, not liable for the content they distributed, as a means to protect the growing Internet at the time.

Section 230 was enacted as section 509 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 (a common name for Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996). After passage of the Telecommunications Act, the CDA was challenged in courts and was ruled by the Supreme Court in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997) to be unconstitutional, though Section 230 was determined to be severable from the rest of the legislation and remained in place. Since then, several legal challenges have validated the constitutionality of Section 230.

Section 230 protections are not limitless and require providers to remove material that violates federal criminal law, intellectual property law, or human trafficking law. In 2018, Section 230 was amended by the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA-SESTA) to require the removal of material violating federal and state sex trafficking laws. In the following years, protections from Section 230 have come under more scrutiny on issues related to hate speech and ideological biases in relation to the power that technology companies can hold on political discussions and became a major issue during the 2020 United States presidential election, especially with regard to alleged censorship of more conservative viewpoints on social media.

Passed when Internet use was just starting to expand in both breadth of services and range of consumers in the United States, Section 230 has frequently been referred to as a key law, which allowed the Internet to develop.

there.

i did my part.

now i must rest.

removing or changing section 230 would also allow lemmy instances to be sued or taken down as well, for the content posted by users. it would increase government surveillance and basically allow the american government to dictate content across the entire internet. no more freedom of speech, whistleblowers, organization of protests, etc.

this all sounds well and good “for the sake of the chillren” but its a trojan horse for government censorship.

the only people who would be able to afford the bill for what happens after this would be american social media companies. anything “independant” or emerging like the fediverse would get bot swarmed with “illegal content” and then immediately sued into oblivion and outright removed.

this ensures complete loyalty of the digital space to the whims of the american government.

it would also allow them to remove things like wikipedia, the way back machine, the internet archive, and sites holding or spreading things around like the epstein files or at least sites holding peoples opinions of them.

id also tell my competition to stop trying and get a real job if i felt like they were still a threat, you know, if i was an insecure, narcissistic, sociopath, with a visible coke addiction, and access to large swathes of investor capital, in an industry that fundamentally cannot turn a profit unless its through circular investment.

great place to store the expensive child porn generators. far away in space, where a molotov can never reach.

i fucking hate this timeline.

im building a cyber deck, fuck this shit.

anything that slows down or weakens the american military industrial complex works for me. sucks for the soldiers, im sure.

but as a non american who has been threatened with invasion by americans online for a while now, this pleases me greatly.

he had a penis enlargement surgery that had the unfortunate side effect of permanent erectile disfunction.

the ketamine makes him virtually incontinent, he cant piss like a normal person, hes got a swollen inflamed bladder so he has to piss often and sometimes without a “controlled release”

so in the absence of a working dick, and bladder, hes few pleasures are drug abuse, and getting pegged. as confirmed by his ex wife, grimes.

“this is strictly about profits from their anime industry.”

ya dont say?

i thought it was pretty self explanitory but having to pay to wipe your ass in a public washroom, or watch ads to fuel more consumption seems pretty capitalistic in practice.

and undereducated? ill have you know i have a university degree, where i majored in porkin’ yer mum, and i minored in holding my nose and mouth closed while i did it.

how “capitalistic” of the “communists” lol.

make my sugar cubes glow, mmm.

you know how easy it is to circumvent this?

relatively easy, its relatively easy. now you know.

people can already “vibe code” p2p encrypted apps for communications, its not that hard and it will only get easier to do.

HOWEVER. obviously not bullet proof, and once meaningful quantum computing combines with AI every keystroke and deleted message, every sneeze or fart you had near a smart phone or a router in your life will be recorded and accessed by it, at the will of its controllers.

every recorded secret will be known, or at least be accessible. the blackmail is gonna be off the chain hook. people are going to start doing things that make zero sense. and youll know why.

“in 2008, senator, you googled “how to tuck my wiener so i can fart into my urethra” in twelve separate variations, and when that didnt yield the results you wanted. you looked up “how to inject fart into urethra, safely”… now, you are going to vote yay on the children coal miners bill, or we’ll drop 2008s search history, and maybe take a look at 2014 to see how you discovered how you wanted to be a furrys “dog knotted bitch slave” while on vacation in vegas…looks like we have all the messages…every second of your visit was recorded by your cell phone and iWatch, all the way down to your heart rate spiking when “white fang” pegged you for the first time that weekend…so…its gonna be a…yay?”