the.com/cda
the law that made the internet possible by refusing to blame the messenger.
means section 230 of the communications decency act, the u.s. rule that platforms aren't liable for what users post on them.
from passed in 1996 as part of a broader (mostly struck-down) attempt to police online obscenity, but the one surviving section, 230, became the internet's load-bearing wall by shielding host sites from user content lawsuits.
26 wordsthe whole liability shield fits in one sentence
most litigatedamong the most cited internet law provisions ever
bipartisan targetboth parties want it reformed, for opposite reasons