> Without that, they are not immune from liability for what someone else wrote. That means, they would censor more, because they would be liable full stop. > P

> Without that, they are not immune from liability for what someone else wrote. That means, they would censor more, because they would be liable full stop. > Private companies are allowed to censor on their servers by default, section 230 does not allow them to censor more then before. In the absence of 230, platforms would either vigorously censor everything, or would moderate nothing except for outright illegal content (e.g. child pornography). §230 gave more flexibility to allow some "community standards" without subjecting the platform to liability as a publisher.