How to Fix Section 230 of the Communications Indecency Act
Introduction Last week a distraught client called me with an urgent matter. A professor at a local university, she made the mistake of flunking a student on a test. The student retaliated by posting two videos about her on YouTube. The first video was the source of my client’s anguish. In that video the student incoherently told a false narrative about my client’s personal life, sparing no one in her family, not even her children. All were lied about and clearly defamed. The vitriol was so extreme, she feared for her safety and her family’s safety, and left her home …