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An update from the Extended Pativerse: professional one-note victim Carrie Goldberg has a speaking cameo in the latest episode of Radiolab: https://radiolab.org/podcast/internet-dilemma
The episode starts by describing how some gay guy's ex-bf harassed him by creating tons of fake Grindr profiles, urging other gay men to show up at his work, his home, and partake in made up, aggressive rape fantasies. Because of section 230, Grindr disavowed responsibility. Carrie Goldberg gets a few minutes trumpeting herself and how she had to become the people's champion because no super special, nudie-photo specific, patronizing lawyers like her existed. Refreshingly, the show continues by showing how 230 came to be as a bipartisan effort in the 90's, how the Supreme Court recognizes the issues with it, but that most authorities and lawmakers and corporate entities agree that it is the least bad option, and that efforts like Arab Spring and BLM likely wouldn't exist without it. Even the gay guy from the beginning comes back on and says he's not against 230 and thinks it offers important protections.
This context leaves Carrie Goldberg's comments sounding uninformed and self-serving, and potentially against progressive causes that depend on the safety of anonymity against authoritarian crackdowns. Sounds almost fascist. How many of you are literally shaking right now?
The episode starts by describing how some gay guy's ex-bf harassed him by creating tons of fake Grindr profiles, urging other gay men to show up at his work, his home, and partake in made up, aggressive rape fantasies. Because of section 230, Grindr disavowed responsibility. Carrie Goldberg gets a few minutes trumpeting herself and how she had to become the people's champion because no super special, nudie-photo specific, patronizing lawyers like her existed. Refreshingly, the show continues by showing how 230 came to be as a bipartisan effort in the 90's, how the Supreme Court recognizes the issues with it, but that most authorities and lawmakers and corporate entities agree that it is the least bad option, and that efforts like Arab Spring and BLM likely wouldn't exist without it. Even the gay guy from the beginning comes back on and says he's not against 230 and thinks it offers important protections.
This context leaves Carrie Goldberg's comments sounding uninformed and self-serving, and potentially against progressive causes that depend on the safety of anonymity against authoritarian crackdowns. Sounds almost fascist. How many of you are literally shaking right now?