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ABSTRACT
Politicians from both major US parties want to reform a more than 20-year-old law that gives internet companies broad protection from liability over third-party content. The left sees Section 230 reform as key to reducing the harm of online disinformation and other ills; the right sees reform as way to prevent censorship. In a “memo” to the president-elect, law professor Eric Goldman asks Joe Biden to work to understand Section 230 and ensure future reforms don’t diminish the society-wide benefits the law has had.
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Eric Goldman
Eric Goldman is a law professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, where he also co-directs the school’s High Tech Law Institute. He has taught Internet Law for a quarter century, and he blogs on Section 230 and related topics at http://blog.ericgoldman.org.