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Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices

underline960@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

So how does this tie into what’s happening now? Part of Vought and Project 2025’s plans are to remove Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). This law currently protects platform holders, providing immunity for any content uploaded to said platform that third-party users created.

By removing Section 230, platform holders, like Steam, would be liable for any “illegal” content uploaded to the platform, as opposed to those creating and uploading said content. If Steam were found guilty of hosting this content, the company could be hit with huge fines. Therefore, Steam, Itch, and many other platforms would likely place a blanket ban on any adult content, mitigating any risk of fines or other legal action. This, as pointed out on Reddit, would affect all forms of user-generated content, including fan art, mods, and videos, not just games themselves.

Seems like a deceptive headline.

The real takeaway is: Project 2025 guy also wants to do the platform-level censorship thing, but by removing legal protections (Section 230) instead of using payment processors.

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mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yeah I started to read comments on other sites and theres a LOT of speculation on this. But the actual article is pretty small. Thanks for breaking it down even further.

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- Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Why did you write the headline in big bold letters that looks like you state something as fact, then in small print at the bottom ask if it’s true?
  
  You are the one that said it was true and you didn’t know?
  
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  - mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I think thats Lemmy thing. I have no control over fonts and it is different in piefed.
    
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    Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I edited my original comment
    
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SkyNTP@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Hear me out: what if repealing section 230 would end up killing our social media monoculture, since it would be impossible for these platforms to operate. Instead, what if people had to host their content themselves, you know, like we did back in the day, when the Internet was fun.

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- Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I don’t know when you’re talking about, but it probably wasn’t self hosting, unless you’re talking about like original internet stuff. GeoCities, for example, was not self-hosting. It was hosting your content on their platform.
  
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- 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  LLMs would be liable for every hallucination.
  
  But how do you enforce it? When the internet crashes out into millions of websites again? When the people who made it happen are the people bad ones and they only go after messaging they don’t like?
  
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- ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The wild runaway success of Gmail proves that federation as a concept is currently not understood by the masses. I have lots of faith but little hope that more learning will be done on a large scale.
  
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  - Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah, the only way I see it happening is if it’s done in a way that’s invisible to users. Even then, I don’t know if it’s a good idea. Either you store a copy of all content locally or your content is only available when your server (presumably your computer or phone for most users) is online. Most people aren’t going to have to storage space for self-hosting federated content that’s distrubuted, and having people go down constantly from turning their computer off is far from ideal.
    
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