While an unelected tech billionaire is effectively orchestrating a coup of the US government, violating federal law with apparent impunity, and disclaiming all responsibility for the chaos he’…

I hate that neither the article nor any comment explains what section 230 actually is.

There are several links in the article. Otherwise that is what we have web search engines for.

Alright then, if you’re gonna be that unhelpful, I’m gonna be the change I want in the world.

No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

From Wikipedia

Search engines are getting worse by the year, by the way. It’ll do us all well not to treat them like the providers of information we once thought of them, especially when the most used search engines are Google and Bing, which will happily fall in line with whatever Trump wants to fabricate as Truth, as we’ve now seen with the Gulf of Mexico.

And it’s just plain polite to provide pertinent information like that for context for such an article.

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