Why most free speech social media platforms don’t support repealing Section 230

There is no doubt where Big Tech stands on the issue of repealing, or even amending Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA): giant tech companies mostly oppose any such idea, and have very good reasons for that, from the point of view of their own interest.

But the question that is almost never asked, as big politics fights big business over this piece of legislation, is what is the stance of those independent internet platforms that are just now emerging as alternatives to centralized media's censorship - and how would an internet without Section 230 affect them.

This now antiquated but also increasingly politically controversial legislation, passed all the way back in 1996, shielded Big Tech in its early and vulnerable startup days by absolving it of any legal responsibility for content posted by users.

But Section 230 does more than that - when these now extremely powerful entities come under pressure from politics or media, or have internal reasons to do so, they can, and do censor those same users and their content with impunity.

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