Anyone know if this is true or not?

  • underline960@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    So how does this tie into what’s happening now? Part of Vought and Project 2025’s plans are to remove Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). This law currently protects platform holders, providing immunity for any content uploaded to said platform that third-party users created.

    By removing Section 230, platform holders, like Steam, would be liable for any “illegal” content uploaded to the platform, as opposed to those creating and uploading said content. If Steam were found guilty of hosting this content, the company could be hit with huge fines. Therefore, Steam, Itch, and many other platforms would likely place a blanket ban on any adult content, mitigating any risk of fines or other legal action. This, as pointed out on Reddit, would affect all forms of user-generated content, including fan art, mods, and videos, not just games themselves.

    Seems like a deceptive headline.

    The real takeaway is: Project 2025 guy also wants to do the platform-level censorship thing, but by removing legal protections (Section 230) instead of using payment processors.

    • mesa@piefed.socialOP
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      9 months ago

      Yeah I started to read comments on other sites and theres a LOT of speculation on this. But the actual article is pretty small. Thanks for breaking it down even further.

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    9 months ago

    Anthony Comstock.

    J. Edgar Hoover.

    Joseph McCarthy.

    Roy Cohn.

    Donald Trump.

    Willful traitors all. Have it writ upon thy meager graves, “destroyed the union just so people wouldn’t masturbate.”

    There’s more, I know. But those fellas are all linked.