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and fosta / sesta cut up some pieces of that for some sites / situations, which could create some of the issues that op was suggesting for some parts of the internet and not others (yet).

Of course there has been talk on both sides of the aisles (especially the past 6 months or so) to remove 230 totally or update it so that moderating speech makes you lose 230 protections - the argument that 'we don't write the words our users do so we aren't responsible" - the 'dumb pipe' defense, starts to erode when you censor some things you don't like - especially if you censor them before they are posted - from what I understand.

Of course some portals have already destroyed thier dumb pipe defense all on their own, aka cloudflare -

This leads to interesting situations where I believe most users do not know that their assumed private speech is being monitored, censored, judged, reported, deplatformed etc..

IANAL, dr., etc - anyhow I think it's a fluid situation currently.