I am setting up this blog to address a number of technical and legal issues that, over the long run, can affect the freedom of media newbies like me to speak freely on the Internet and other low-cost media that have developed in the past ten years.
Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!
Biden threatens to eliminate Section 230 if he can; SCOTUS may look at an unusual 230 case involving Facebook and Hamas
Hoeg Law analyzes some statements by presidential
candidate Joe Biden that suggest that Biden wants to do away with Section 230. "Joe Biden Wants to Break the Internet (and Video Games).
The video is based on a New York Times Editorial Interviewof Joe Biden a few days ago.
Hoeg Law explains well the reasons for Section 230 and
the “good Samaritan clause” which addresses the “moderator’s paradox”, even though
there have been many problems with content moderation (and demonetization).
Biden seems unaware of how the Internet really works. He wants to be the Luddite who enforces localism as a way to bring stability.
But there are ways in which gratuitous self-publishing
can skew the economy and in some cases exacerbate inequality.I’ll come back to all of that soon.
Update: Jan 22
The Supreme Court will look at an unusual challenge regarding a Facebook account and a soldier killed by Hamas to Section 230, regarding apparently the way the Seventh Circuit interpreted some justification clause wording in the statute, story by Mike Swift in Marketing Insight. This story will need more attention soon. (Not sure if SCOTUS has accepted it yet.)
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