Subj : Re: Back at it
To   : Dr. What
From : Adept
Date : Thu May 04 2023 10:34 am

 DW>  Ad> On the other hand, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act came
 DW>  Ad> about because of politicians not liking the no-moderation that was
 DW>  Ad> Compuserve, and preferring the greater moderation of Prodigy.
 DW> 
 DW> That doesn't seem right.  The CDA came out in 1996.  Prodigy died for
 DW> good in 2001 (and was never really popular).  And while Compu$erve still
 DW> seems to exist today, it was pretty dead by then as well.

Yeah, it wasn't that section 230 was directly aimed at Prodigy and Compuserve, just that they both got sued, and Compuserve won because they didn't engage in any content moderation, and Prodigy had issues because they were being considered a publisher because of taking _some_ stuff down.

But, yeah, take a look at
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230
in the background and passage section

Since, yeah, it's kind of interesting how early online services that were not the internet impacted things. I guess they weren't BBSs, though I'm sure BBSs would still fall under a variety of these things.

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