Thirty years ago, I co-wrote Section 230. Without it, goodbye retweets, Reddit mods, Wikipedia editors and curated feeds on Bluesky.
In the waning days of his presidency, Donald Trump declared an all-out war on the internet—and if he had gotten his wish, he would have burned down not just the internet as we know it, but the hive of ...
Section 230 is the legal “shield” that lets regular people post without platforms getting sued into dust for every comment. Take it away, and suddenly everything becomes pre-approved, sanitized, and ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Daryl Lim, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act ...
Sometimes when my teenage son attempts to educate me about the internet, I find myself tempted to quote Aslan from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, “Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was ...