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Digital Platforms: Responsibilities Then and Now (Fall 2019)

“Herrick v. Grindr: Why Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act Must be Fixed” by Carrie Goldberg, Lawfare (2019).

Herrick v. Grindr provides a case study of some of the harms permitted under § 230,  as well as attempts to circumvent it by plaintiffs. Do you agree that this case reveals that § 230 must be fixed? What are the dangers of changing § 230 in the ways Goldberg proposes?