Government,
Administrative/Regulatory
Jan. 4, 2021
The hurried effort to repeal Section 230 is ill-advised
Although passed in response to the digital revolution, Section 230’s protections are far from novel.
Daniel B. Lifschitz
Partner
Johnson & Johnson LLP
Email: dlifschitz@jjllplaw.com
Loyola Law School; Los Angeles CA
Moliere famously said that unreasonable haste is the direct road to error. The current quixotic fixation in Washington, D.C. on repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act largely fueled by a fundamental misunderstanding of the law's function, encapsulates the danger of such haste, as it risks upending the foundational architecture of the internet in service of little more than shortsighted political score-settling.
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