Wow, the hatred against Big Tech was just pouring out in torrents on CNN in the wake of the *correct* unanimous Supreme Court decision today. So many people who don't understand the Internet want to destroy it.

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@lauren

I think it's more people who don't understand legislation.

Yeah, people only have vague notions about how the internet works, but they'll have outright wrong ideas about what legislation actually says even as they express passionate opinions about it!

@volkris More to the point I think, most of them are willing to throw away the First Amendment to "protect the children" from anything that anyone feels is "objectionable." Polls are scary as hell about this.

@lauren

Yeah, and to put a point on it as an example, I so often hear people say we need to get rid of section 230 to protect the kids when they clearly don't realize that 230 was specifically written to encourage protection of kids.

If that person knew what the law actually said they might have the opposite opinion to the one they're literally yelling about.

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