These are the 4 realistic outcomes of getting rid of section 230 protections which say: no interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher.
Option 1: every post must be vetted and manually approved by mods. For a big site, not doable.
Option 2: everyone must register with real id and they are all responsible for what they posted. Doable, and goodbye anonymity. Dictators wet dream. Welcome thought police.
Option 3: Say fuck it and close shop, get rid of all user content.
Option 4: stop doing business in the us, host all servers, all infrastructure, register everything in foreign countries.
This is what they are all begging for. Complete fucking idiocy. 230 is the only reason we can have a forum like this. It's the only reason you are allowed to post on someone else's site. Unless of course if you want to just use foreign companies servers.
Forcing companies like YT to state definitively whether they are a platform or publisher.
Which currently had zero meaning online. How would this fix anything?
lol, what do you mean it has zero meaning online?
There is no distinction online in any laws between a platform and a publisher. So as current laws stand, the distinction between the two is worthless.
So, how would you change the laws? Just screaming platform and publisher into the clouds is worthless.
Eh, dafuq you talking about?