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LZ Granderson: Social media sites like CompuServe and AOL were regulated as if they were publications.
He says they had to make sure that illegal content wasn’t published on their sites.
Granderson says Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 on social media sites.
The result of Section 230 of the act is obvious today , he says.
A 10-year-old girl asphyxiated herself to death after receiving a TikTok video for a “blackout challenge’s” The case is far from settled; from here it’ll go to the Supreme Court , and its fate there is hard to predict.
The social media companies have so far stymied efforts to do away with Section 230 or regulate their behavior.
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