For a decade now I've always totally ignored fwd (I seem to be on their mailing list) since they just seemed like a zuck initiative through and through. They never had anything creative or interesting to say. Wondering if that will change now that zuck has totally cut ties with them.
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Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: bit.ly/protocolnotpla...
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Had missed that a Reddit commenter actually had the info that was needed to find the shooter.
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A little timeline cleanse from all the nonsense. Anyone in the Bay Area want a lovely new puppy for Christmas? We're fostering again, and this little guy is a bit shy, but super sweet...
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What Daphne said here. But even leaving all that aside, if your entire business is built off of scraping the web, it's QUITE a look to then file a lawsuit saying "scraping *our* site might violate copyright law."
Read the room.
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(Spoiler alert: they were not fucking kidding. This is real. And it's just as stupid as it sounds).
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This is a fantastic (and very, very funny) interview of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy by Trevor Noah (who I guess isn't here?). www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QLy...
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So congrats @durbin.senate.gov@bsky.brid.gy, brilliant fucking plan: you make it MORE DIFFICULT to protect kids, hand the internet over to the internet giants you claim to hate, and kill off smaller companies.
It'll be great for the trial lawyers, though.
And that's only for the companies big enough to try to stick around without 230. For smaller companies, the threat of lawsuits becomes existential. The whole thing gets how this works exactly backwards.
Because without 230, you have tied companies hands. They cannot take steps to protect kids without having to go through careful legal review *because* of that newly opened up "litigation." That makes the companies *slower* to respond and less willing to figure out better ideas.