- United States
- Calif.
- Letter
I'm asking you to protect Section 230 from repeal. If you believe reforms are necessary, work directly with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU to craft them. These organizations are the leading experts on Section 230 and understand how to preserve free speech while addressing legitimate concerns.
Repealing Section 230 would violate the First Amendment by forcing platforms to censor speech preemptively. Without liability protection, every website hosting user content would face two impossible choices: screen every post before publication or abandon moderation entirely. The first option is technologically impossible at scale. The second would turn the internet into a cesspool. Either way, constitutionally protected speech gets silenced because platforms can't risk the lawsuits.
Repeal would also hand Big Tech a permanent monopoly. Only Meta, Google, and a handful of giants can afford the legal teams and AI systems needed to manage unlimited liability exposure. Every startup, nonprofit platform, and community forum would shut down or never launch. Competition dies. The open internet dies with it.
Section 230 isn't perfect, but gutting it won't solve the problems you're trying to fix. Targeted reforms developed with civil liberties experts can address real harms without breaking the internet or concentrating power in the hands of the companies you're trying to rein in.