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Online spaces have undoubtedly played a significant role in facilitating discourse and the exchange of information. With this increased discourse, however, digital platforms have also seen a rise in harmful or problematic content shared online––including health misinformation, hate speech, and child sex abuse material, among others. Many commentators have put the blame for this trend on Section 230, arguing that Section 230 has enabled the spread of harmful content and suggesting that Section 230 ought to be amended or replaced. This Essay, by contrast, argues that the current narrative about Section 230 gets it wrong. In reality, Section 230 has allowed digital platforms to take crucial steps toward combating dangerous content online. Removing Section 230 protections would likely reduce the level of content moderation that is available on online platforms—the opposite of what the bills discussed seek to promote—and would in fact make the problems of content moderation worse.
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Koustubh “K.J.” Bagchi, Elizabeth Banker, and Ife Ogunleye
Disrupting the Narrative: Diving Deeper into Section 230 Political Discourse,
2023 Pepp. L. Rev.
1
(2023)
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/plr/vol2023/iss1/1
