There will be very little accountability that the change they desire matches the rhetoric. In his first term, Trump's DOJ and FCC tried weakening 230 -- not repealing it.
The most useful Section 230 might:
- Intimidate fact checkers
- Promote new "outsiders", conveniently approved with a polished message
- Sew a framework of attribution, especially between loyal states versus blue states.
- Obscure that some messages are paid, while others just win an algorithmic jumble.
- Sew a framework of counter-attribution, where a platform may challenge my message as untruthful. Regardless, if I seem to pass a particular loyalty test, I win the right not just to promote it harder, but also advertise "what they don't want you to know" and they must carry it as such.
The most useful Section 230 might:
- Intimidate fact checkers
- Promote new "outsiders", conveniently approved with a polished message
- Sew a framework of attribution, especially between loyal states versus blue states.
- Obscure that some messages are paid, while others just win an algorithmic jumble.
- Sew a framework of counter-attribution, where a platform may challenge my message as untruthful. Regardless, if I seem to pass a particular loyalty test, I win the right not just to promote it harder, but also advertise "what they don't want you to know" and they must carry it as such.