Tech Companies Shift Their Posture on a Legal Shield, Wary of Being Left Behind

For more than two decades, the tech industry had a cohesive message to Congress about a law that shields internet platforms from lawsuits: Don’t touch it.

But now, as tech companies face intensifying attacks from political leaders, more of them are saying something else: Let’s work something out.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/technology/tech-section-230-congress.html

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Where Do We Go From Here With Section 230? Three legal scholars discuss the internet law that everyone seems to hate right now.
In 2020, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act took a hell of a beating from all sides of the political spectrum. Section 230 grants broad legal immunity to interactive computer services for user-generated content and for the moderation of that content—and it made possible the internet we both love and hate today. President Trump and President-elect Joe Biden have both criticized it, for very different reasons, illustrating the unusual position Section 230 stands in today.

Recently, Mary Anne Franks, a professor at the University of Miami School of Law and the author of The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech; Jeff Kosseff, an assistant professor of cybersecurity law in the U.S. Naval Academy’s Cyber Science Department and author of The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet; and Mike Godwin, who has worked on internet rights issues for more than 30 years, joined Future Tense editorial director Andrés Martinez to discuss the past, present, and potential future of Section 230.
https://slate.com/technology/2020/12/legal-scholars-mary-anne-franks-mike-godwin-and-jeff-kosseff-on-section-230-of-the-cda.html

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