Will the Supreme Court Blow Up the Internet?

Since at least 2020, Justice Clarence Thomas has essentially been pleading with lawyers to bring him “an appropriate case” challenging the scope of a statute Republican politicians love to hate: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The law, which has been around since the mid-1990s, has been hailed as the Magna Carta of the internet and the 26 words that built the modern World Wide Web. Its text isn’t exactly a model of clarity, clearly belonging to the era of dial-up modems and free AOL CD-ROMs: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as… Read Full Article