As a matter of fact, I just read an article in Wired Magazine that has me rethinking Section 230. I still believe it wasn’t crazy at the time to treat online platforms as simple conduits for speech, but Gilad Edelman makes a very compelling argument that liability protection never had to be all or nothing. The U.S. courts are actually set up to make case-by-case decisions that over time form policy through the body of common law that results, which would have given us a much more nuanced treatment of platforms’ legal liability. Edelman also says, and I agree with this, it would be a mistake to completely repeal Section 230 at this point. We can’t go back to 1996 when the case law would have developed in parallel with how we evolved in our use of social media. Section 230 definitely needs adjusting, because as things stand, it’s too much of a shield for platforms that benefit from purposely damaging content like sexual privacy invasion and defamation. The key thing to any changes, though, is that they don’t overly burden small companies and give even more advantage to the big tech platforms who have the resources to navigate a new legal landscape.