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Why the internet still needs Section 230
Sen. Ron Wyden on the birth of a foundational speech law.
Major tech platforms with deep-pocketed legal teams seem happy to accommodate Trump and other government censors, as long as they’re allowed to keep raking in billions by selling targeted ads and scooping up Americans’ private information. Nobody batted an eye at a conservative House member from Orange County, California and a liberal Congressman from Portland, Oregon hashing out ideas back then… except, maybe, when someone wandered by and heard us talking about the internet. Chris Cox and I considered that a perfect analogy to the peril facing online sites that accepted user postings, and we wanted to make it clear that Internet content creators and their distributors had the same protections as people working in print or radio or film.
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