Everyone Hates Section 230. But the Internet Still Needs It.

James Surowiecki
5 min readOct 1, 2022

What with war in Ukraine, Ron DeSantis using migrants for a campaign PR stunt, Trump’s legal travails, and devastating hurricanes, it’s not that surprising that one of the most important legal decisions in recent memory has gone largely unnoticed. The decision by a three-judge panel for the Fifth Circuit, which I wrote about for Fast Company last week, upheld HB20, a Texas law that…

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James Surowiecki

I’m the author of The Wisdom of Crowds. I’ve been a business columnist for Slate and The New Yorker and written for a wide range of other publications.