Stephen Hayes#Section230 #Cyberlaw #Internet #Platforms
Section 230 is a U.S. law that provides immunity to online platforms from liability for content created by third-party users. It was enacted as part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 ..
.. to encourage free expression on the internet while allowing platforms to moderate content without being treated as publishers.
This is the text:
"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."
In other words, you should not be able to sue a bookstore for a defamatory book it happens to sell - only the AUTHOR can be sued.
You will have neither bookstores, nor the Internet if you abandon this basic principle.