The more likely result from removing 230 (depending on how it was removed) is actually that all moderation stops. Moderation is what makes the companies liable without 230, so they just wouldn’t do it (and wouldn’t allow users to do it either). Any open community site would quickly become a cesspool. Small private closed communities would become the norm.
juggling more money than their pre-AI boom market cap by a wide margin
I’m not sure what you mean by this. Nvidia carries a vanishingly small amount of debt for its size. It has way more liquidity than debt.
It won’t collapse. It’ll lose a huge chunk of its stock price, but it both has other business to fall back on and its chips will still likely be used in whatever the next tech trend is - probably neural network AI or something.
Loops is the FOSS fediverse equivalent.
Doctorow is Canadian-British.
This is written by Cory Doctorow – formerly of the EFF and coiner of the word “enshittification”. You can disagree with him, but this is the same kind of advocacy he has written for decades.
BSD, perhaps. Or maybe Redox eventually.
True, but the thing is that the people in power will still complain about increased fraud if and when it happens and point to the government as irresponsible custodians of personal data.