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OA698: Will Clarence Thomas Break the Internet? (Probably Not.)

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The Fastest Andrew Was Wrong - Episode 451

The Telecommunications Decency Act gives two protections to quote an interactive computer service, meaning not only ISPs, but social media platforms, websites and anyone who provides or enables computer access by multiple users to a computer server. Those two protections are one, that they will not be treated as the publisher or speaker of any content for defamation purposes, and two, that they won't be liable for any effort to moderate or control their content. There is no doubt in my mind that repealing or effectively repealing Section 230 would indeed absolutely, crazily, radically change the internet in ways that we can't even begin to predict.

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