Thirty years ago, I co-wrote Section 230. Without it, goodbye retweets, Reddit mods, Wikipedia editors and curated feeds on Bluesky.

In the waning days of his presidency, Donald Trump declared an all-out war on the internet—and if he had gotten his wish, he would have burned down not just the internet as we know it, but the hive of ...

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 ...

Section 230 is the legal “shield” that lets regular people post without platforms getting sued into dust for every comment. Take it away, and suddenly everything becomes pre-approved, sanitized, and ...

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Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act was born 30 years ago out of real concerns for the future. Lawmakers feared that the early internet, fragile and experimental, would be ...