The Catalyst
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is a 28-year-old liability fence that lets online platforms dodge legal responsibility for what users post. Bipartisan proposals in Congress — from EARN IT Act variants to targeted carve-outs for algorithmic amplification and child safety — are chipping away at that fence. The mechanism matters: narrowed immunity doesn't ban content, it shifts litigation risk onto the platforms themselves. The result is a compliance arms race that larger, content-heavier platforms lose first, and product-focused stacks barely notice.