In today's Judiciary markup, Sen. Graham said: "If you get run over by a car you can sue the person that ran you over" to justify undermining Section 230.
If someone runs you over with a car you can sue the driver, but not the car manufacturer. That's the gist of Section 230.
Follow
Click to Follow jimmy_wales
Jimmy Wales
@jimmy_wales
Jimmy Wales’s Tweets
The UN is no longer fit for purpose
Quote Tweet
The Islamic Republic of Iran was today appointed Chair of the U.N. Human Rights Council Social Forum. This year's theme is technology and promotion of human rights.
The U.N. is a meaningless and useless organization and serves as a stage for dictators!
114
610
2,259
Exciting to see the first proofs of The Other Pandemic out in the wild.
It’s out in July – pre-order details are here: twitter.com/jamesrbuk/stat
5
14
90
It's exhausting, boring and just plain sad. But Americans who care about their country are going to have to mobilize once more to defeat Trump. Starting now.
1,257
2,635
12.3K
Show this thread
Re-upping my Magazine article about Vladimir Kara-Murza, Putin’s most hated political prisoner who’s now serving a 25 year jail sentence for opposing the war in Ukraine. It’s a long read but I guarantee you’ll be moved by Vladimir’s sacrifice and bravery
Quote Tweet
Powerful - and extremely moving - article by Bill Browder in TIME magazine about the bravery and convictions of Vladimir Kara-Murza, the patriot and dissident now imprisoned in Russia.
Vladimir Kara-Murza Is the Political Prisoner Putin Fears Most | Time time.com/6278309/vladim
9
96
318
Survival Through Purpose: How Ukrainian businesses endured amid extreme uncertainty
surveyed executives across more than 100 Ukrainian businesses, analyzed economic data, and interviewed Ukraine’s top business leaders.
3
6
Show this thread
I wrote this up in my newsletter two weeks ago – this isn’t a bluff from Meta. They really will withdraw services from the UK, and they won’t be the only ones. This bill is a disaster, albeit a disaster with cross-party support.
7
58
103
On encryption, and the absurdity of ministers sending each other messages that nobody else can see about the supposedly terrible problem of people being able to send each other messages that nobody else can see.
5
27
89
Obsession over a woman carrying a sword is already boring but of all the Coronation misinfo circulating, a photo of Penny Mordaunt (which I won't be resharing), manipulated to show her in underwear has got to be the least inventive 🙃
2
3
🎯 Anyone who wants real peace in Ukraine must recognize it will only come with illegally occupied Crimea is restored and free. Leaving the terrorist invader with anything Putin can call victory lays the ground for his next invasion.
Quote Tweet
Ukrainians have thought a lot about what it would mean for Crimea to fall, and how it could be transformed afterwards. Usually our imagination doesn't stretch that far. Maybe it should
Show this thread
54
457
2,442
And in English:
So sorry to share that Deror Lin, one of the World's greatest Wikipedians, has passed away.
He was one of the Wikimedia Laureate award winners, announced by last summer
Quote Tweet
Congratulations to Deror Lin, one of this year's Wikimedia Laureate award winners! 
Deror is an inspiring editor and a prolific contributor who has been instrumental in organizing many @Wikimania convenings. He has written 8,600+ articles for Hebrew Wikipedia! #Wikimania2022
Deror is an inspiring editor and a prolific contributor who has been instrumental in organizing many @Wikimania convenings. He has written 8,600+ articles for Hebrew Wikipedia! #Wikimania2022Show this thread
2
10
44
Show this thread
AI Experts Aren’t Always Right About AI, says : "Decentralized social systems are fairly robust; the world has survived technological upheavals in the past; ...intellectuals can too easily talk themselves into pending doom...The best way to create safety is by…
20
107
Changing your mind when presented with information that contradicts your belief is an indication of intelligence, not a sign of weakness.
3
23
121
“In the 1950s, only 12 per cent of teenagers agreed with the statement “I am an important person”. Today, that figure is higher than 80 per cent.”
Quote Tweet
I wrote this about the stressful modern obligation to have a unique and interesting personality and the overlooked charm of being normal and boring
thetimes.co.uk/article/sorry-
71
66
196
They "got Brexit done" and there will be hell to pay for it for a generation.
Quote Tweet
This is not only not business as usual, but more importantly it’s not business as usual when the Tories are heading for defeat. Even in 1997 the worst defeat in centuries the Tories got almost double this vote share (27%) among 18-24 year olds. twitter.com/savanta_uk/sta…
Show this thread
7
20
When this happened with Wikipedia, the community setup projects to stop pointless biased edit wars and work together to find areas where all sides could agree on historical facts. Twitter doesn’t have the tools for this at the moment. See: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
Quote Tweet
Fascinating. The note was rated “helpful” and had half a million views but as it gained more attention a bunch “downvotes” came along and delisted it along with new note submissions from a more biased view (mostly anti-Israel). Begun the ratings wars have. twitter.com/LahavHarkov/st…
Show this thread
3
7
15
Oh, the irony: Publishers insist platforms owe them money for linking to them but whine when they don't link.
Mirror publisher blames revenue decline on Facebook changes
2
8
25
Lots of Lords discussion of aircraft, train and car safety regulation. None of them imposes a duty on manufacturers to police what we say to each other while travelling in their vehicles. #OnlineSafetyBill
1
11
20
Show this thread
This morning's edition of "Heather warned about this months ago, so she did" is this excerpt from last night's Hansard, where we learn how Mastodon communities are likely to be (heavily) regulated under the Online Safety Bill.
read image description
ALT
4
31
40
Show this thread
"…the authors and book publishers of America are beginning to suspect that what is meat for the photocopying industry will turn out to be poison for writers."- 1963
1
17
52
Ok sure, if by "victory" you mean "lost the election", I suppose. That's a very unusual way of speaking.
Quote Tweet
Replying to @jimmy_wales and @Linguistgate
He didn't say that corbyn won the election.
He said he secured a victory. He was predicted to lose by 150 seats, and instead achieved the greatest swing to an opposition since 1945. That is a victory.
If you have to start with a lie, the rest isn't worth reading.
4
2
12
Interesting to read
56
65
171
Chomsky on Faurisson.
Faurisson was an antisemite who denied the systematic extermination of Jews by gas - futurefreespeech.com/robert-fauriss
Those asserting Chomsky’s genius as proof of his perfection because he likes Corbyn, are obviously fools.
But they also lend themselves to racism.
6
16
47
“I wish I’d done more”
Former Postal Affairs Minister reflects on the Post Office scandal, suggesting the coalition government didn’t do enough to prevent the wrongful convictions of sub-postmasters.
#Peston
1:03
18.6K views
32
38
62
This is absolutely insane
Quote Tweet
An eighth grade girl waited 10 minutes before she made her move, nervously scrutinizing the gap between two cars. She’d seen plenty of trains start without warning. “I don’t want to get crushed,” she said.
propublica.org/article/trains
6
21
51
I'm not happy to see that this is plastered with copyright and "personal study only" notices, and "contact us to secure a licence for reproduction" text
Quote Tweet
We are happy to announce the launch of our permanent digital archive portal #ScienceInTheMaking! Travel through 400 years of scientific history, from the earliest illustrations of dinosaur fossils to revolutionary scribblings from Newton, Hooke and Halley: royalsociety.org/news/2023/04/s
Show this thread
2
18
29
And while we're at it, neither the FCC nor any other government agency can dictate whether a cable channel calls itself "news" or "entertainment." That is not a thing. And we should be glad about that too.
3
6
61
Show this thread
If the Whig view of history is ineluctable progression from darkness to light, the #OnlineSafetyBill certainly disproves it.
2
4
9
Are we still making this tired argument?
Section 230 does not require that social-media companies give up their right to moderate content - in fact, it explicitly allows it. It's Facebook's platform. If it doesn't want to publish material it finds offensive, it doesn't have to.
Quote Tweet
The American people have given Facebook broad liability protections under Section 230 that other media companies don't get.
And yet Facebook is acting like a media company, not a platform.
Why, then, is it getting Section 230 protection?
public.substack.com/p/how-to-fight
Show this thread
8
8
43
Show this thread
Great to see a UK minister coming out against the Online Safety Bill's mass surveillance provisions, and echoing the longstanding expert consensus in doing so. We need less magical thinking and more of this.
9
72
264
Show this thread
Replying to
Section 230 doesn't protect a site from content they themselves create.
1
2
16
The UK government thinks WhatsApp and Signal are bluffing when they say they’ll withdraw from the UK rather than comply with the Online Safety Bill
From my conversations with insiders, I *really* don’t think they are. And that comes with real consequences
46
495
1,175
It appears the Labour Left’s campaign to restore Abbott’s whip has already begun.
Quote Tweet
*In response to events regarding Diane Abbott today*:
Diane was right to apologise for her comments this morning.
The Party should now accept the apology and restore the whip. twitter.com/HackneyAbbott/…
6
23
209
Show this thread
If you read this thread you will see this is yet another case of someone who thinks they are against Section 230 but it turns out they want to repeal the 1st Amendment.
Quote Tweet
Section 230 should be amended so liability is on social media providers for providing lies and untrue propaganda to the public through their media provided by third parties @carolmswain
2
9
42
I just want to remind everyone about this. Someone should do a full thread on Diane Abbott's frequently horrible ideas.
Quote Tweet
"We see that the United States has that it needs to send US and other NATO troops to Russia's borders. This alone tells us that the claims that Russia is the aggressor should be treated sceptically" - Diane Abbott to last night's STWC meeting. Total rubbish.
Show this thread
3
6
42
Labour spox: “The Labour party completely condemns these comments which are deeply offensive and wrong.
The chief whip has suspended the Labour whip from Diane Abbott pending an investigation.”
2
24
285
Show this thread
BREAKING: Diane Abbott MP has had her Labour whip withdrawn following her letter published in The Observer today.
48
150
1,016
Show this thread
call me radical, but publishing an overtly anti-Semitic screed in a national newspaper should result in the whip being withdrawn even if it’s not followed by the lamest insult of an excuse of all time
9
14
140