Section 230: What It Is And Is Not
And how two recent supreme court decisions affected the safe harbor rule.
The US Supreme court has decided two cases that challenged protections of Section 230 of the US Communications Decency Act and in both cases the court decided not to touch those protections. In oral arguments for the cases the court indicated they felt maybe Congress should be the one to do that.
Twitter v. Taamneh argued that Twitter provided unlawful material support for failing to remove users from its platform. Gonzalez v. Google claimed that a platform, in this case, YouTube, should be liable for content it recommended to users.
A lot of people misunderstand what Section 230 does and doesn’t do. So in this updated article, in the extended article below, I’ll cover the basics of what it is and what it isn’t and what the court did and did not say in these landmark cases.
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