Ann Bartow
November 10, 2017 | The Recorder
Section 230 Keeps Platforms for Defamation and Threats Highly ProfitableSection 230 takes free speech-rooted disregard for people and their feelings, and ramps it up a few notches, immunizing online media companies from liability for hosting not only anything the First Amendment protects, but also from the reach of most of the very limited speech restrictions that First Amendment jurisprudence disdainfully tolerates.
By Ann Bartow
20 minute read
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