{"id":1286,"date":"2024-07-08T14:14:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T20:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlj.colorado.edu\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:41:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:41:38","slug":"the-fate-of-section-230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlj.colorado.edu\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"The Fate of Section 230"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Abstract<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Document\">For years Section 230 has operated as the Internet Giants\u2019 shield from liability for user content posted on their platforms, regardless of the extent of harm to the public. The Supreme Court\u2019s decisions in <em>Gonzalez v. Google<\/em> and <em>Twitter v. Taamneh<\/em> inform that the law\u2019s broad protections may stay for now, but the Court suggested to Congress that such protections may need to change or disappear altogether. Although proponents of maintaining Section 230 \u201cas is\u201d fear that any change to the law may lead to Internet companies possibly overhauling their platforms or restricting speech on their platforms in an effort to avoid a windfall of lawsuits, critics of Section 230 see the law as a broad shield for these companies to avoid legal accountability. This Note argues that Congress should overhaul Section 230 and replace it with a federal regulatory mechanism, modeled after the European Union\u2019s Digital Services Act, that regulates Internet companies, improves transparency among their moderation policies, and demands accountability when such policies cause harm to users.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><strong>Link to Full Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Document\" style=\"text-indent: 0in; text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ctlj.colorado.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/FINAL_05.25.24_Fry_The-Fate-of-Section-230.pdf\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Fate of Section 230<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract For years Section 230 has operated as the Internet Giants\u2019 shield from liability for user content posted on their platforms, regardless of the extent of harm to the public. The Supreme Court\u2019s decisions in Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh inform that the law\u2019s broad protections may stay for now, but the Court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-2-volume-22","category-volume-22"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"portfolio_item-thumbnail":false,"portfolio_item-thumbnail@2x":false,"portfolio_item-masonry":false,"portfolio_item-masonry@2x":false,"portfolio_item-thumbnail_cinema":false,"portfolio_item-thumbnail_portrait":false,"portfolio_item-thumbnail_portrait@2x":false,"portfolio_item-thumbnail_square":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Kimberly A. 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