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It’s section 230 of the communications decency act and covers certain safe harbour provisions about when a telecommunications provider is (and crucially isn’t)
by seanhunter 3y ago
It’s section 230 of the communications decency act and covers certain safe harbour provisions about when a telecommunications provider is (and crucially isn’t) responsible for material they are transmitting. So it has lots of ramifications for any site that hosts user-generated content as well as for things like net neutrality etc.
Here’s the text of section 230 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
Here’s a discussion of what it is and why it matters https://itif.org/publications/2021/02/22/overview-section-230-what-it-why-it-was-created-and-what-it-has-achieved/ https://itif.org/publications/2021/02/22/overview-section-23...