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I dont speak legalese, can anybody explain this?
If you ran a website filled with other people's content it would make you a distributor and not an author, giving you legal protections from lawsuits for that content and allowing you to fight back against censorship of certain contents like books and archivals.
However, it already does NOT apply to, and does not afford any protections in the case of, any: criminal activity, sexual exploitation, intellectual property, state laws, and sex trafficking.
So basically, Section 230 is only good things and gives power to hosts to have AND/OR remove any contents they like so long as that content does not violate any laws. It is protecting them from civil lawsuits. While removing it might help us by harming Facebook, TikTok, Reddit, etc it will also make censorship much easier in general.
So it is moving to remove 230?
Thanks for the detailed reply
Yes, they announced a plan to introduce a bill to remove 230 and it has 1 author and 5 bipartisan cosponsors already. AFAIK the bill has not actually been introduced yet and them announcing it might just be them testing the water for pushback.