Section 230 supporters turn on it, its critics rely on it. Up is down, black is white in the crazy world of US law
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/13/section_230_ironies/
Up is down and down is up when it comes to one of the most important, and now controversial, US legal protections for internet companies.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act gives internet platforms blanket legal protections concerning the content posted by others on, or through, their services. Until recently it was a holy cow: untouchable and frequently praised as the reason that companies like Google and Facebook were able to exist in the first place.