Taylor Lorenz

And they're already using these to pass these laws.

Ironically, those laws are also laws that Meta is lobbying for.

And Meta is already using this case.

to push for the app store accountability act and all these other laws so it and meta of course has been running ads they want to repeal section 230 as well that will actually allow meta to consolidate power so why is that walk us through how that benefits meta

Yeah.

So Section 230 guarantees the it effectively puts the liability for online speech on the speaker.

So if you go on the Internet and you say something bad, you should be held responsible.

You know, say you say something hateful in a chain email.

I forward that chain email to my mom.

Section 230 allows me to forward your email without being held liable for defamation if what you said in the email was bad or wrong.

So it's really important.

It allows us to have retweets.

It allows us to leave a negative review on Yelp.

If you were to remove Section 230,

basically every single platform would have to pre-screen content and ensure that it's not sort of any legally dicey stuff.

So you would not be able to leave a negative review on Yelp because the restaurant might sue Yelp and Yelp doesn't want to have that.

Now, because of AI,

These tech companies, the really big ones, are actually kind of fine removing Section 230 because they are confident that they can prescreen everything with AI.

Yes, we'll have mass censorship.

Yes, we won't be able to criticize power online anymore, but that's how it is in a lot of authoritarian countries, and they still have a thriving Internet ecosystem.