As Bipartisan Calls To Amend Section 230 Mount, Experts Emphasize Unintended Consequences

Experts are skeptical of calls from both Republicans and Democrats to modify Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.

Section 230 delineates internet content hosts and providers, like social media sites and search engines, from internet content producers, like their users. It ensures that the hosts are not held legally responsible for the posts of their users, and allows the hosts to “voluntarily take [actions] in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider… considers to be … objectionable.”

A pair of early...