If there was no section 230, it means every website would be responsible for all the of the content posted. The big tech cos can still afford teams of moderators, but a smaller competitor would have no chance.
I.e., I set up a small website, and a user posts something illegal. Now I'm 100% responsible for it. I'd have to manually review every single post, which means creating a new reddit or facebook or twitter would be impossible.
If there was no section 230, it means every website would be responsible for all the of the content posted. The big tech cos can still afford teams of moderators, but a smaller competitor would have no chance.
I.e., I set up a small website, and a user posts something illegal. Now I'm 100% responsible for it. I'd have to manually review every single post, which means creating a new reddit or facebook or twitter would be impossible.
In theory that's what it was going to do. In reality, it's turned big tech into a propaganda machine and killed the competition in the sector.
The competition was killed by the network effect. I.e., you have to be on Facebook if all your friends are on Facebook.
It also was killed by moving away from open technologies (like RSS). Instead, each big social media company has its own walled garden.