Lauren Feiner

And they're doing so even with Section 230 in place, even without COSA.

I'm going to be really interested to see which way that argument goes and if that kind of speeds up or slows momentum in either direction.

I think there are really a lot of Democrats who support COSA and really are fully on board with those kinds of changes to the law and definitely have acknowledged some of the critiques around that, you know, this might harm marginalized communities or make it harder to access certain kinds of content that might get politicized on the internet.

But

generally just think that those have been pretty much dealt with in the language of the statute.

It's not really going to come to pass.

And they've just accepted that they feel like this is the best way forward.

I mean, certainly not all Democrats.

You know, obviously, Ron Wyden, who co-authored Section 230, has not supported COSA.

there really is broad bipartisan support for these kinds of issues.

So I think that's going to be the challenge for some of the hardliners on Section 230 and against COSA right now to think, like, is it that there's never going to be anything that changes on these issues, or is there going to be some kind of change and we have to figure out what we can live with?

I think that's kind of the new Wild West that we're going to be running into here with probably new lawsuits.

But I think even Ron Wyden, who we've discussed many times today, has said that AI outputs aren't necessarily protected by Section 230.

I think those will likely be treated differently.

I mean, we won't really know till we see a court case come out on it.

But I think that's going to be a big question.

And I think the thing to remember with Section 230 is that it's really a procedural tool that stops lawsuits kind of in their tracks.

And how cases get decided in the end is based on the First Amendment.

So unless you're going to get rid of the First Amendment, getting rid of Section 230 doesn't really completely get rid of the problems that maybe some people think they would.

Casey, I think that's exactly the right question about algorithms, because I think it's much easier to make the argument that infinite scroll or autoplay, it's not really about content.