Elysia [she/her]

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Cake day: November 3rd, 2025

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  • If they genuinely just repeal Section 230 the age verification would be the smallest issue. That’d open up online platforms to be liable for anything its users post on it, including all kinds of stuff you really don’t want to be liable for, like hosting doxxings, hate speech, people mocking someone getting luigi’d and most of all, actual mountains of technically copyright infringing material. For users that would mean incredibly strict limits on what they can upload and for companies it’d mean thinking twice about whether this is even a business worth running.

    Maybe it’s just genuinely me being naive for taking tech companies at their word, but Section 230 has often been cited as a prerequisite for the rise of sites that mainly offer user generated content, including all of social media.