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It's incredibly sad we've come to this and the free speech "libertarian" nature of the internet is long dead. These laws, even if found "legal", are just a band-aid and won't change the underlying truth about how half the country (and most new immigrants) think of free speech.

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Just to be clear, could you lay out for us how exactly you think social media sites would operate in a scenario where the Texas law was upheld? Let's say for example, that the Texas law was upheld and Hacker News lost any ability to moderate the comments section of this site, how do you think that would go?

I don’t think it’s possible, hence my point on societal changes. It’s unenforceable for the most part and would lead the last real free speech sites to really shut down.

Sad, sure, but libertarianism doesn't scale. Once we let anyone's kids and randos on the Internet, the goose was cooked.

There's no putting that genie back in the bottle, short of making Internet 2.

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