Jeff Tiedrich tweet about Elon Musk & Twitter:

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26. The issue is corporate liability. The legal representatives for these companies...

...have made it clear that if Section 230 goes, and if it is not replaced with something equally strong, the social media companies will either close up shop or at the very least will become entirely different entities than we have come to know. There will be much more moderation of posting because they will be held responsible. Hence Section 230, which even Drumpf's moronic "Truth Social" cites in its TOS. "Truth" and "Frank Social" (PillowMan's site) ban people all the time. All you have to do on "Frank" is use a swear word or two. One of those alt-Twitter sites even censored the word "Groyper" because of some dust-up with the followers of Nick Fuentes.

Any social media company that tries to run a "free speech" site is going to have problems very quickly. And that doesn't just mean neo-Nazi posts about Da Jooz, etc. There will be calls for violence, both of the dogwhistle and the foghorn variety. This has already happened with Reddit, 4Chan, 8Chan or whatever the hell it is now, and many others.

A good precept to keep in mind: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance