Section 230 and Internet Law | Retro Report

Both Democrats and Republicans want Section 230 changed, but what would that mean for the Internet? Today’s heated political arguments over censorship and misinformation online are rooted in a 26-word snippet of a law—Section 230—that created the Internet as we know it. Democrats want companies like Facebook to do more to police disinformation. Republicans claiming censorship of conservative views want to make internet companies do less policing.

Today more and more people are posting what they want online and websites are not getting sued for it because of their legal shield. But to some experts, the broad immunity that Section 230 provides has made some internet companies lazy and irresponsible.