Thanks To Section 230, I Can Correct Wired's Portrayal Of My Section 230 Advocacy

Thanks To Section 230, I Can Correct Wired's Portrayal Of My Section 230 Advocacy

3 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210507/08280746747/thanks-to-section-230-i-can-correct-wireds-portrayal-my-section-230-advocacy.shtml

I always thought it would be a great honor to be referenced in the hallowed pages of WIRED magazine. Like Mike, I've been reading it since its beginning, as a then student studying information technology and watching the Internet take hold in the world.

This week it finally happened, and ugh... My work was referenced in support of a terrible take on Section 230, which not only argued that Section 230 should be repealed (something that I spend a great deal of personal and professional energy trying to push back against) but masqueraded as a factual explanation of how there was no possible reasonable defense of the law and that therefore all its defenders (including me) are, essentially, pulling a fast one on the public by insisting it is important to hold onto. After all, as the title says, "Everything you've heard about Section 230 is wrong," including, it would seem, everything we've been saying about it all along.