But then there's objectionable content on the interwebs and big tech companies that hide behind all this is free speech. What are you doing? What is, what is this reform section 230 act all about? So Section 230 was adopted in the late 1990s. and it was a way to protect these social media companies that were kind of babies at the time, kind of brand new babies at the time, that if they took down what was considered otherwise objectionable conduct, they couldn't be sued for that. (12:39–12:43)
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