NY Times headline: Supreme Court to Hear Case That Targets a Legal Shield of Tech Giants The justices are set to hear a case challenging Section 230, a law that protects Google, Facebook and others from lawsuits over what their users post online.

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1. Dan Gillmor (dangillmor@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 05:11:27 JST Dan Gillmor

   A reminder that the New York Times coverage of Section 230 has been dishonest for a long time.

   The "paper of record" relentlessly frames this a Congressional favor for tech giants. In fact, the law protects freedom of expression -- yours and mine -- on the sites where we share, and the ones we own. It also protects our right to edit.

   This is about money, and control. Traditional media have less of both due to the Internet. They want it back.