“When the tech behemoths claim, as they routinely do, that they couldn’t exist without Section 230, they are only slightly exaggerating. They couldn’t exist without the new and improved Section 230 that they rewrote with the help of the courts.” PoliticsPowerCorruptionControlJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big TechBig TechSection 230 Author:Josh Hawley
“Manipulative advertising based on personal characteristics is far from the passive distribution of third-party content Congress envisaged when it adopted Section 230 a quarter century ago. And behavioral ads drive many of tech platforms’ worst pathologies—the surveillance, the addiction race, the data pilfering. But Section 230’s shield from liability is worth far more to Big Tech than even behavioral advertising. Section 230 is the giant government subsidy on which Big Tech feeds and has built its empire.” PoliticsPowerCorruptionControlElitismJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big TechBig TechSection 230 Author:Josh Hawley