Section 230 is what protects the website from the time when the illegal/defamatory content is posted to when it is removed. It is what gives the website operator a reasonable amount of time to police the user-generated content.
Without Section 230, the millisecond illegal or defamatory content hits your servers and starts being shared by your website to other people, you are legally responsible for it.
There are already laws against CP long before Section 230. Even without it, we could remove CP with ease.
But I sorta get what you're saying. Our website moderators would still want to remove other BS troll topics that would flood here.
I think there's an easy happy medium where website mods can curate without censoring.
Section 230 is what protects the website from the time when the illegal/defamatory content is posted to when it is removed. It is what gives the website operator a reasonable amount of time to police the user-generated content.
Without Section 230, the millisecond illegal or defamatory content hits your servers and starts being shared by your website to other people, you are legally responsible for it.