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.
I'm not US citizen, so I can't clamor for repel or opposite. I just want to understand.
You already can't generate user content with anonymity. Every popular to slightest degree platform already knew more about you than you yourself.
Even in a worst case scenario, when 'platforms' would be obliged to collect ID's of users with addresses and phones. for the forums like this it would not be a problem to move into ZeroNet or any other hidden network. More people in p2p, faster it works. It will even have some benefits.
Or I am missing some point? May be in US a 'publisher' have to pay some publisher taxes and 'platform' should not? And that taxes make the, say, conspiracy.win too expensive for the owner?