EFF Tells Congress, Media to Stop Claiming CDA Section 230 Only Protects Tech

Lawmakers, academia and media often mistakenly suggest that big tech is the only group that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects, Electronic Frontier Foundation Civil Liberties Director David Greene wrote Wednesday. The safe harbor protects a wide variety of internet users and publishers like news media, nonprofits, anyone who maintains a website and those who post to classified sites like Craigslist, he said. The ultimate beneficiaries are everyday internet users, “so that we can post things online without having to code it ourselves, and so that we can read and watch content that others create,” he said.