Because that's a cliche that, despite its tiresome repetition here and in other tech forum, hasn't been true for 22 years, and only ever was the law of the land

Because that's a cliche that, despite its tiresome repetition here and in other tech forum, hasn't been true for 22 years, and only ever was the law of the land for a bit more than a year (1995, until the passage of the Communcations Decency Act in 1996) Specifically, US Code § 230(c)(2) ("Protection for private blocking and screening of offensive material") provides: No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of— (A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or (B) any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230)