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Mike Masnick
@masnick.com

Wrote about Monday's Ninth Circuit ruling that I think is wrong on both the facts and the law, but could have a massive (damaging) impact on the open internet. Effectively the court removed the part of Section 230 that actually mattered, by insisting *everyone else* was sloppy with their language.

Techdirt@techdirt.com

Ninth Circuit Rewrites Section 230 To Remove The Part That Actually Mattered For all the talk of "reforming" or "repealing" Section 230 in Congress, the fact is that the courts... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/12/ninth-circuit-rewrites-section-230-to-remove-the-part-that-actually-mattered/

techdirt.comNinth Circuit Rewrites Section 230 To Remove The Part That Actually MatteredFor all the talk of "reforming" or "repealing" Section 230 in Congress, the fact is that the courts over the past three or four years have effectively chipped away so steadily at the law that it's lost a significant chunk of its usefulness. The latest comes from the Ninth Circuit, which ruled earlier this week...

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Intelligente
@thesmart.bsky.social

It's insane that the bill, as written, gets read in congress and passed but the courts will infer from the drafting process, that was not read or passed, what the intent was instead of simply reading the effing text.

Teeklin
@teeklin.bsky.social

How do we properly weaponize this ruling against the right and these tech companies? That's the next question I guess. It's a bad decision but now that it's here, how do we organize 10,000 lawsuits against X and Meta to really start pointing out why this is terrible and get them to fight it for us?