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    Supreme Court for first time casts doubt on Section 230, the legal shield for Big Tech

    WASHINGTON — Internet giants like Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter owe much of their success to a legal shield erected by Congress in 1996. Known as Section 230, it has been called the rule that launched Big Tech. Though it drew little attention at the time, the law is now seen as a pillar of the wide-open global internet we know today. While newspapers and TV stations can be held liable ...
    by David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times Feb 20, 2023 5 minutes
    WASHINGTON, DC- FEBRUARY 10: The Supreme Court of the United States building, photographed on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022 in Washington, DC.

    WASHINGTON — Internet giants like Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter owe much of their success to a legal shield erected by Congress in 1996.

    Known as Section 230, it has been called the rule that launched Big Tech. Though it drew little attention at the time, the law is now seen as a pillar of the wide-open global internet we know today.

    While newspapers and TV stations can be held liable for any false and malicious content they publish or broadcast, internet platforms are treated differently under Section 230.

    Congress passed the special free-speech rule to protect the new world of online communication. It said: "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."

    Law professor and author Jeff Kosseff called Section 230 "the 26 words that created the internet" because it allowed

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