RT @WillOremus@twitter.com
A right-leaning federal court stunningly reinstated a Texas law allowing users to sue FB, Twitter & YouTube for viewpoint "censorship"—making content moderation all but impossible.
Now it will likely fall to SCOTUS to decide the future of online speech: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/13/technology-202-future-social-media-could-be-decided-by-supreme-court/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/WillOremus/status/1525107811251851264
I’ve been saying for years that Wikipedia/Wikimedia should have an ‘exit the USA’-plan. It’s just not as long term stable as often assumed. It’s an extremist country in many ways.
@Greg @dj_hartman IIRC our traditional thinking was that the European options have inconvenient libel/right-to-forget/moderation laws, but I don't know if anybody has seriously looked at "what if the US environment got bad enough we had to leave period, and those trade-offs would be forced on us".
@Greg @dj_hartman it is my sincere hope that there's some actual planning on this subject happening somewhere behind the scenes. ;)
@brion @dj_hartman we have great lawyers and policy folks who are super duper smart so I presume there's a "in the back pocket" memo ready with most of the leg work started, but yeah, annoying problem. :(
@Greg they don’t have to be ‘as well’. They just have to be better than what the USA might degrade to. Iceland is my favorite backup. Let’s not forget that 6 months ago a government was almost overthrown.
@dj_hartman Good point re Iceland. I'd consider moving :)
And yeah, don't remind me :(
@dj_hartman I haven't yet heard of other options that would work as well?