From what I understand 230 defends Twitter and Facebook against being held accountable for the contents posted by users. Lets say they remove it what impact it is going to have?
Other then call for violence directly it is going to be defended by the 1'st Amendment so I do not see it hurting this giant corporations in a big way.
On top of that they are going to be allowed a time of X to remove calls to violence on their site, similar with how EU did.
What am I missing here?
if today you sue them for a post some user wrote on their platform, they will protect themselves in court with section 230, aka "we are just a platform if you have a problem here the guy who wrote such post sue him instead". if 230 is removed totally they became liable for every post ever written on the website by any of the users. like if the owner wrote them directly. what would happen is clear: meteor rain of lawsuits. enough to even send them in bankrupt. removing totally 230 will kill the internet as we have now. but reform in such a way that websites "platforms" that reach a certain amount of traffic will stop being seen as platforms if they moderate their content could work.
What can you sue them on? Again most stuff is going to be defended by the 1'st amendment.