U.S. senators target tech's legal immunity to stop vaccine misinformation

[mikewarot]

So you make anyone liable for user comments, only the existing players will be able to muster the resources to comply with the ever increasing and self-contradictory regulations that result. This is a great way to raise the drawbridge for FAANG and stop innovation in its tracks.

All the startups will move to some country with actual freedom of speech.

[lsiq]

As Naval wisely said when Trump was cancelled, "if you can silence a king, you are the king."

FAAMG is the government and the internet. Just a matter of time until it becomes official.

[benque]

Tangential but genuine question - can you please provide examples of such countries?

[lnreddy]

Thank god for the US constitution and the 1st and 2nd amendments.

Power hungry ideologues and fanatic mobs(woke or otherwise) would turn it into an authoritarian shit-hole without them.

[TechBro8615]

And thank god for the two party system that never gets anything done. A slow government is a good government.

[bruceb]

Congress wants the ability to sue people/companies over talking about the vaccine...but of course the makers of the actual vaccines are immune from lawsuits...