DISCUSSION: Decentralization and What Section 230 Really Means for Freedom of Speech

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🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order last Thursday, seeking to amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 prevents social media companies from civil liability for the content posted on them. The order targets Twitter and Facebook after Twitter fact-checked two of the President’s tweets.

Today, CoinDesk tackles the topic with Chief Content Officer Michael Casey, Privacy Reporter Benjamin Powers, New York Law School professor and past President of the American Civil Liberties Union Nadine Strossen, and author of the Open Index Protocol Amy James

This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace.

On this podcast, the CoinDesk team brings listeners up to speed on the leadup to and aftermath of the executive order, discuss the fairness implications of editorializing on social media, the business models that enable and are empowered by all of this, and how decentralized protocols can chart an alternative path forward.

First we talk about the first amendment and Section 230 itself, what it does and doesn’t do as it pertains to social media platforms and moderation.

Then we talk about fairness and the if you don’t-like-it-leave argument, as well as related topics

We’ll talk about the business models and assumptions implicit in the current state of dominant social media platforms before turning to alternatives or possible solutions in decentralized protocols and multi-layered approaches to moderation or censorship.

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0:53.2	Hi and welcome. My name is Adam B Levine. I'm the podcast editor here at CoinDesk. And today we'll be discussing recent actions taken by U.S. President Donald Trump on social media and specifically protections offered by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. This is the conversation at CoinDesk. Today's episode is brought to you by Bit Stamp and Cipher Trace.
1:12.8	For this conversation, I'm joined by our chief content officer, Michael Casey, and privacy
1:16.5	reporter Ben Powers. Michael, Ben, say hello. Hi, everybody. Michael Casey here. This is Ben. Thanks
1:22.2	for having me. For today's complex topic, we're honored to be joined by two experts.
1:27.2	Nadine Strausson, author of the new book System Override, How Bitcoin, Blockchain, Free Speech, and Free Tech Change Everything.
1:34.0	Hello.
1:34.7	Hi there. Great to be here.
1:36.7	And Amy James, CEO of Alexandria Labs and co-inventor of the Open Index Protocol.
1:41.1	Hi, Amy.
1:41.7	Hey, Adam. Thanks for having me.
1:43.4	Thanks to everybody for being here. We appreciate that it's kind of a crazy time right now.
1:47.3	But to set the stage, last week we saw Twitter, the global standard and favorite social media
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