Another View: Update Section 230 for the age of algorithmic distribution

It’s the 30th anniversary of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a law that says that communications platforms aren’t legally responsible for what users post. That means this law is older than all of Gen Z (not to mention Gen Alpha) and is still dictating the distribution of content despite the breakthrough technological developments since then.

The internet as we know it today is drastically different from the dial-up AOL chatrooms and message forums run by hobbyists 20 years ago.