Taylor Lorenz

Ultimately, these business

you know, these giant tech companies, they rely on harvesting data.

They don't rely on free speech and censoring every single piece of content actually allows them to harvest even more data than they previously do now.

So they don't really care about that.

What it would also do though, is decimate the broader internet and remove forums, remove, remove actual, like remove grassroots free speech.

We have like we have centuries of speech law in America.

You know, you cannot Section 230 does not protect platforms from illegal content.

Section 230 also allows platforms to moderate content differently.

So a gardening forum can be moderated differently than a BDSM forum.

You know, Section 230 is actually what allows children's spaces to exist on the Internet because they can be moderated differently if we remove that.

all spaces are effectively moderate.

You know, it's all sort of like the same.

It's basically all or nothing.

You know, you bring up sort of like alcohol or cigarettes, et cetera.

What I would say is that those don't provide benefits.

Like those don't provide like- No, I would argue differently.

What I mean is that like-

We're talking about access to information.

And ironically, that example that you just gave of exposing someone at 15 to first 21, it's actually much more harmful to expose young people to sort of the entire internet later because they don't develop the media literacy skills that it's so crucial for them to develop actually as young as possible.

So it's really important to expose kids to the internet at a young age.