230 Matters: One Week Until Our Event & Discussion With Section 230's Authors

230 Matters: One Week Until Our Event & Discussion With Section 230's Authors

3 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210216/09055646254/230-matters-one-week-until-our-event-discussion-with-section-230s-authors.shtml

A week from today on Tuesday, February 23rd at 12:30pm PST, Techdirt is hosting a fundraising event: Section 230 Matters, a celebration for 25 years of Section 230 featuring both of its authors: Chris Cox and Senator Ron Wyden.

For reasons I still don't fully understand, Section 230 remains under attack from pretty much all corners. The law that has helped enable so many amazing services is constantly being blamed for an array of problems -- most of which are totally unrelated to Section 230. It's blamed for people saying bad things online. It's blamed for targeted advertising (which makes no sense at all). It's blamed for too little moderation, and too much moderation. It's blamed for who won elections and who lost elections.