The politics of Section 230 reform: Learning from FOSTA’s mistakes
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Section 230 became law in 1996, when the internet was in its infancy as a force in popular life. se Cubby v. CompuServe, a federal district court ruled that the internet service provider CompuServe could not be held liable for allegedly defamatory posts published to its platform, on the grounds that
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- Section 230 became law in 1996, when the internet was in its infancy as a force in popular life.
- se Cubby v. CompuServe, a federal district court ruled that the internet service provider CompuServe could not be held liable for allegedly defamatory posts published to its platform, on the grounds that CompuServe was passively hosting the material without moderating or reviewing it, like a bookstore stocking a wide range of volumes. Just like a b...
- Soon after Stratton Oakmont was decided, Wyden (then a member of the House of Representatives) and then-Rep. Chris Cox (R-Calif.) began working on what would become § 230
- he and Wyden aimed to “protect[] speech and privacy on the internet from government regulation, and incentiviz[e] blocking and filtering technologies that individuals could use to become their own censors in their own households.”
- the internet has shifted from a thicket of small websites to an environment dominated by a handful of enormous social media platforms.
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