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Mary Anne Franks on Section 230

The Lawfare Podcast

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Is There a More Complicated Story to Be Told About Section 230?

The traditional story of why Congress passed Section 230 may not be accurate. There was a lot of sort of porn panic going on in the 1990s, he says. The people who were thinking about the internet at the time had something in common with those calling for it to be heavily regulated and those saying hands off. So I think there was just a lot of non-thinking going on inthe 1990s.

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