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Section 230: Everything You Need to Know -- Tweets, Free Speech, Beyond

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The Slip Side of the Lawsuits

There were a series of lawsuits in the early nineties that tried to hold internet services that had moderated some content. The most famous one is stratton oakmont versus prodigy. And because it moderated some content to try and take down cursing or porn anything that it felt was inappropriate, according to the judge, it was now liable for as if it had written that content itself. That freaked out people in congress who put together section two thirty to say, wait, that's crazy....

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