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Sect.230 several people before me have pointed out that beyond the free speech aspect, Section 230 was specifically, politically, an anti-newspaper law. By giving platforms - who are obviously editorializing content via algorithms - protection from liability, it was an absolute kill switch to newspapers (who are mostly re-publishings, not original journalism).

Tech companies successfully created a law guaranteeing the death of their primary competitor (local print papers were the public square via Letters to Editors).

In that regard, Section 230 must clarify option for NO ALGORITHM, NO CENSORSHIP, or Section 230 should be deleted, and bring back local newspapers, or, allow newspapers to also have Section 230.

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The core principal is freedom of the individual. In every circumstance and at every opportunity written law has been distorted and used by bureaucratic totalitarians to repress and cripple the evolution of human consciousness and creativity. The WAR is and has always been on consciousness. WHAT YOU CAN'T SAY OWNS YOU.

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In the two years preceding covid hysteria, face coverings had been banned in many Canadian cities, then hysteria hit and hiding one's face became just fine. Human stupidity knows no end. This is the West, with all its lumps, we are an open-faced society, and there should be no exceptions other than extreme medical situation and Halloween.

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