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No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or

speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

Those 26 words you just heard are known as Section 230. It's a law that laid the foundation

for the internet as we know it today. It made big tech behemoths like Google and Facebook

possible. And it's not just big tech. I mean, it's any platform that hosts user content.

So it goes anywhere from Facebook and YouTube all the way down to the community news site

that I read every day in our LinkedIn Virginia that has a pretty lively user comment section.

Law professor Jeff Kassif. But when I read some of the comments, I think, wow, they're

pretty lucky that Section 230 exists because they really get into it. And so all of that

open discussion would be much more closed if we didn't have Section 230.

So the uninitiated Section 230 essentially protects platforms from being responsible for

everything users say. It sounds sort of small, but it's enormous. Take Yelp.

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