it's more that it would make them legally liable for the content itself, unless they stopped moderating and filtering. Currently if someone posts a shitty revi

it's more that it would make them legally liable for the content itself, unless they stopped moderating and filtering. Currently if someone posts a shitty review, the company can sue them, not Facebook. That's what 230 does. If you remove section 230, then Facebook itself becomes liable for the comment. So now if the comment actually is libelous then Facebook would have to pay money. Unless they don't filter or moderate - filtering includes spam, etc. YCombinator would become liable for comments on hacker news - because it filters spammers. Facebook might be able to afford the presumably heavy handed filtering, but ycombinator probably can't, and a basic dev blog almost certainly can't, so would have to remove support for comments. Public bug reports also can't filter spam bug reports, for the same reason.