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The Safe Tech Act: Smaller Websites Could Soon Be Liable For What You Write, Requiring "Ruthless Moderation" | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 80002697  United States03/09/2021 06:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Safe Tech Act: Smaller Websites Could Soon Be Liable For What You Write, Requiring "Ruthless Moderation" "Essentially, the SAFE Tech Act removes 230 protections — liability from lawsuits challenging what’s posted on platforms by users like you and me — for any website that processes financial transactions. The intention behind this is to reduce harmful paid advertisements. However, the act makes no effort to separate ads from all other types of paid content. Have you used platforms like Etsy, Bandcamp, Substack, or Patreon? These are sites that allow for (and in some cases require) payments and financial transactions in order to be used. Do you use premium versions of websites where you can pay to remove ads? If this bill becomes law, you won’t be able to use any of these sites as they currently exist. And what happens when businesses face additional, unnecessary liability for the services they provide? They become too expensive to operate, or start taking down everything that is posted on their websites, because they fear liability. The organizations that can actually afford to accept payments are the ones with large teams of lawyers and armies of content moderators - namely, Facebook, Google, and Twitter. At a time when we need more antitrust scrutiny and more accountability for these platforms, they will get a lifeline to maintain monopolistic behavior, free from competition." [link to actionnetwork.org (secure)]  ------ |
