> Indeed, the [Internet Accountability Project] and [the Free and Fair Markets Initiative], who were these huge fake grassroots non-profits designed to hold Google and Amazon to account [by opposing Section 230] barely seem to exist any more. [...]
> It’s almost as if they were astroturfed operations that suddenly became unnecessary once Ellison could get what he wanted directly, having spent $45 million to work his way deeper into Trump’s circle.
Quoting above for emphasis, since it's harder to notice the absence of things which quietly disappeared.
> The real question is whether Oracle’s years-long campaign against Section 230 comes back to bite it: devaluing the TikTok stake it worked so hard to get, and eating away at the legal protections its entire cloud business sits on top of.
Perhaps it rests on an assumption that political allies will be protected from major lawsuits by a complicit DoJ, so that Section 230 is something that will mainly help "enemies."
Terr_•1h ago
> It’s almost as if they were astroturfed operations that suddenly became unnecessary once Ellison could get what he wanted directly, having spent $45 million to work his way deeper into Trump’s circle.
Quoting above for emphasis, since it's harder to notice the absence of things which quietly disappeared.
> The real question is whether Oracle’s years-long campaign against Section 230 comes back to bite it: devaluing the TikTok stake it worked so hard to get, and eating away at the legal protections its entire cloud business sits on top of.
Perhaps it rests on an assumption that political allies will be protected from major lawsuits by a complicit DoJ, so that Section 230 is something that will mainly help "enemies."