Sure. Let's talk about what might happen if #Section230 is repealed. https://twitter.com/benjamin3123/status/1343383885128851461

First, what's going to happen to big tech?

Not much. Big tech has been operating globally in countries with quite the opposite of 230 for a long time. They'll simply adapt their policies for whatever new U.S. regs substitute 230.

So, to anyone that genuinely thinks destroying 230 is in some way going "stick it to big tech..." well congrats, you played yourselves.

Now let's see what the prizes are for reckless policymaking:

1. While Big Tech will be A-OK, Americans get to have a super great time navigating VPNs because suddenly the land of the free ain't so free anymore when it comes to online speech.

That's right, get ready for lots of "this content isn't available in your country :("

2. The only thing Americans might love more than guns and god is litigation (and lots of it ). And while the First Amendment is handy dandy, #Section230 is a can of star spangled whoop-ass for startups.

You want to destroy Facebook? Empower their competitors w/ litigation fast lanes so they can spend more time innovating and less time getting sued.

(newsflash: that's exactly what 230 does)

And what about the already existing small online communities out there? Without 230, those sites could:

A. Exit the market.
B. Bankrupt themselves in court. (S/O to Veoh).
C. Sell-out to big tech.

Oh look, the Internet just got smaller.

3. Get ready for the world wide cabelized web. Because when the kids can't play nice in the sandbox, you simply don't let them play anymore.

Here, user generated content is the problem child.

Just like Netflix, Internet companies could control the content we consume by curating it all from legally unproblematic sources and regurgitating it for our eyeballs.

Now for a quick thought exercise: what companies do you think might be making those choices for us?

4. Of course, there's always the option of just not moderating. Not your circus, not your monkeys.

But let's be real. What legit websites will actually do this? Their communities will just leave.

Or end up behind bars...(Pour one out for the Twitch streamers)

And besides, without 230, websites that choose not to moderate will probably end up getting sued anyway. (It already happens today!)

So, damned if you do. Damned if you don't.

5. For every ridiculous new law websites have to navigate to host our content, that's more time, money, and brainpower wasted on creating a million and one different strategies to avoid lawsuits.

That's one more engineer being told, sorry you can't build that feature.

That's one more breakthrough in content moderation that will just have to wait.

One more unique online community forced offline.

And one more reason Internet companies can't seem to do better.

Yes, other countries don't have #Section230. But FFS, that's because America has always been a leader when it comes to free speech, free expression, and unencumbered access to information.

Apparently, Congress needs us to remind them of that.