Repealing Section 230 would entrench Big Tech's dominance, not challenge it. Google, Meta, and Amazon have the legal teams to handle unlimited liability. Startups, community forums, local news sites, and emerging platforms do not. Section 230 repeal would eliminate the competition that Big Tech actually fears, consolidating the internet into the hands of the few companies large enough to survive.

Section 230 protects platforms from liability for content their users post. This protection does two critical things: First, it allows platforms to host open discussion and real-time communication without reviewing and approving every post in advance. Second, it makes content moderation legally possible by ensuring platforms can remove harmful or objectionable content without becoming liable for everything they fail to catch. Without Section 230, platforms would take down broad categories of content to avoid any possible legal risk. Neither approach serves free expression or online safety.
 

The internet we rely on exists partly because Section 230 made it legally feasible to build services around user-generated content. YouTube, Wikipedia, Reddit, review sites, online communities, and countless platforms that enable expression, organization, and connection all depend on this protection. Even more importantly, the next TikTok or X might not come about if the law is changed in ways that increase the risks associated with hosting user content.
 

Students organizing, activists mobilizing, small businesses connecting with customers, families staying in touch, communities forming around shared interests – all of this depends on platforms being able to host user speech without facing crushing legal liability for every post. We cannot afford to get this wrong.

For Section 230’s 30th birthday, tell Congress to stop threatening your free speech! Save 230 and KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT of how social media platforms host your lawful speech. Repealing Section 230 will not hold platforms accountable or protect children, it will only make the internet less competitive, less innovative, and less free.