How Section 230 protects online speech

"People could post awful stuff on [social media], and then those platforms could be sued for it. That's not the internet should work," says Shoshana Weissmann.

"Imagine if Twitter was criminally liable for everything said on its platform," Shoshana Weissmann, digital director and fellow at the R Street Institute. "And smaller platforms, think about those. People could post awful stuff on there, and then those platforms could be sued for it. That's not the internet should work."

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