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Antitrust Chronicle<sup>®</sup> – Section 230

Antitrust Chronicle® – Section 230

Spring 2021, Volume 2, Number 2

Dear Readers, An originally obscure provision of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”) of 1996, Section 230 provides that “no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” In other words, online intermediaries that host or republish speech are […]

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In this issue

Antitrust Chronicle® – Section 230
CPI
May 25, 2021
Section 230 Reform in the Era of “Big Tech”: What Does That Mean for Antitrust?
Zhao Liu
May 25, 2021
Section 230 Reform: A Typology of Platform Power
Matthew Perault
May 25, 2021
Regulating Internet Services by Size
Eric Goldman
May 25, 2021
What We Talk About When We Talk About Section 230
Zephyr Teachout
May 25, 2021
Section 230 Protects Speech, Not Business Models
John Bergmayer
May 25, 2021
Is Content Moderation an Antitrust Issue? Section 230 and the Current Tech Antitrust Debates
Jennifer Huddleston
May 25, 2021
Antitrust, Section 230 & the First Amendment
Berin Szoka
May 25, 2021
Beyond Speech: Section 230 and Its Implications for State and Local Governments
Abbey Stemler
May 25, 2021

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