Ep 18: Are they about to ruin the Internet?

06/18/20 • 71 min

Section 230, a law that protects online services from lawsuits based on user-created content, is under bipartisan attack. We discuss how Section 230 came to be, how Big Tech is abusing it, and what it might mean for the future of the Internet.

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The Next Wave Podcast - Ep 18: Are they about to ruin the Internet?

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James Thomason00:00:04.799

It's The Next Wave Podcast Episode 18. This eek we're talking about section 30 of the Communications ecency Act here in the United tates. That's title 47 USC 230. provision that was originally ucked inside the Communications ecency Act, which was enacted n 1996. And ironically, was esigned to potentially censor ots of information on the nternet. And when the CDA got assed the Electronic Frontier oundation and many others, iled lawsuits and c