Section 230

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Section 230. Section 230 is a provision of the 1996 communications decency act. Section 509 of pub. Section 230 generally provides immunity for website publishers from third party content. But it has had an outsize affect on life as we know it.

It says that companies that operate online forums everything from the billions of posts made on facebook to restaurant. Section 230 is a piece of internet legislation in the united states passed into law as part of the communications decency act cda of 1996 a common name for title v of the telecommunications act of 1996 formally codified as section 230 of the communications act of 1934 at 47 u s c. Section 230 is a part of federal legislation passed more than 20 years ago. 201 et seq by adding section 230 at end was executed by adding the section at end of part i of title ii of the act to reflect the probable intent of congress and amendments by sections 101 a b and 151 a of pub.

It runs only 26 words long short and to the point. Section 230 reform may continue to play a role in the 2020 campaign. Section 230 is one of the pieces of legislation that allowed today s internet and facebook twitter and youtube to develop. Section 230 also allows social media platforms to moderate their content by removing posts that violate the services own standards so long as they are acting in good faith.

The section 230 protection has stopped twitter from taking action against the inflammatory content mr trump is prone to post but the social media company may have to change that if it is legally. Ron wyden d ore and former rep. No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider. Now it s being accused of enabling everything from anti.

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