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What happens if the law starts treating Facebook and Twitter like traditional publishers?

March 5, 2019

"No other sentence in the U.S. Code," technology scholar David Post has written, "has been responsible for the creation of more value than" a little-known provision of the Communications Decency Act called Section 230. But in January, President Donald Trump's technology adviser Abigail Slater suggested that Congress should consider changes to the law. From Pacific Standard

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