Spring 2021, Volume 2, Number 2
Antitrust Chronicle® – Section 230
An originally obscure provision of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”) of 1996, Section 230 provides that “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 its originally obscure origins, Section 230 of the CDA has come to be viewed as a touchstone of freedom of expression online, and is considered by many to have been a key liberty allowing for the massive growth of online platforms in the decades since its original adoption.
