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ColdTakes··on I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled
I was a similar position as yours when I was at university. Do not have faith in your university administration.
ColdTakes··on Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
I'm sure you also think Twitter is the free speech capital of the internet as well.
ColdTakes··on Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
There is a long history but the short of it is, before Section 230, platforms that moderated user content faced potential liability. Oakmont v. Prodigy[1] is a case where Prodigy was held liable for defamatory posts due to its moderation efforts. However, in Cubby v. CompuServe[2], the court ruled that platforms without active moderation, CompuServe were not liable for user-generated content because they were just hosting with no active involvement. Section 230 protected platforms from liability for user content, allowing them to moderate in good faith without being held responsible for all harmful material if they weren't able to moderate everything.

I believe Elon and Trump, being the internet's biggest liars, have the goal to remove Section 230 making moderating online more or less a crime that will open you to litigation and allow them and all of their followers to spread lies not only unchecked but with the threat of punishment if a company, like Blue Sky, were to try to moderate them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton_Oakmont,_Inc._v._Prod....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubby,_Inc._v._CompuServe_Inc.

ColdTakes··on Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
This is my conspiracy theory but this is all in preparation for the end of Section 230 which will also inadvertently kill Blue Sky.
ColdTakes··on Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
The pressure has just shifted from being applied by the left to the right. There is still censorship on Twitter, it is just the people Elon doesn't like who are getting censored. The same will happen on Facebook. Zuckerberg has been cozying up to Trump for a reason.
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