A few quick notes about section 230

In The Wolf of Wall Street, Scorsesse tells the story of a firm named Straton Oakmont a predatory stock brokerage. Shortly before they fell apart, they successfully sued America Online for defamation, as a user of that service was blowing the whistle on them. What a ridiculous outcome. Congress thought so too so they created blanket immunity for Internet service providers for material flowing through their systems. After all, AOL said nothing, a user did.

Of course the fish had three eyes…