US Congress needs to reform Section 230 safe harbor provision because it is based on early ideals of the open web and wasn't designed for social media platforms
Tarleton Gillespie / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @tarletong Tweets: @wired : Big tech companies love to invoke a 20-year-old law that shields them from liability for material posted by users. Maybe it's time to rethink that law http://www.wired.com/... Tarleton Gillespie / @tarletong : It's time we address a missed opportunity, from when Section 230 was first passed into law. Safe harbor was an enormous gift to the young internet industry. But historically, regulatory gifts of this enormity have been fitted with a matching obligation to serve the public. 1/4