No more recommendation/personalization? This could go either way, I'm also willing to see where this one goes.
No more public comment sections? Arstechnica claimed back in the day when section 230 was under fire last time that this would be the result if it was ever taken away. This seems bad.
I'm not sure what will happen, I see 2 possible outcomes that are bad and one that is maybe good. At first glance this seems like bad odds.
Actually there's a fourth possibility, and that's holding Google responsible for whatever links they find for you. This is the nuclear option. If this happens, the internet will have to shut all of its American offices to get around this law.
The underlying hosted service is nearly completely unmoderated and unpersonalised. It's just streams of bits and data routing. You can scan for/limit the propagation of CSAM or DMCA content to some degree as an infrastructure provider but that's really about it and even then you can only really do so to fairly limited degrees and that doesn't stop other providers (or self hosted participants) from propagating that anyways.
Then you provide custom feed algorithms, labelling services, moderation services, etc on top of that but none of them change or control the underlying data streams. They just annotate on top or provide options to the client.
Then the user's client is the one that directly consumes all these different services on top of the base service to produce the end result.
It's a true, unbiased section 230 compatible protocol (under even the strictest interpretation) that the user then can optionally combine with any number of secondary services and addons that they use to craft their personalised social media experience.
No more moderation? This seems bad.
No more recommendation/personalization? This could go either way, I'm also willing to see where this one goes.
No more public comment sections? Arstechnica claimed back in the day when section 230 was under fire last time that this would be the result if it was ever taken away. This seems bad.
I'm not sure what will happen, I see 2 possible outcomes that are bad and one that is maybe good. At first glance this seems like bad odds.
Actually there's a fourth possibility, and that's holding Google responsible for whatever links they find for you. This is the nuclear option. If this happens, the internet will have to shut all of its American offices to get around this law.