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Southern Poverty Law Center Pushes Section 230 Repeal to Censor Conservatives

I’ve been writing about the digital iron curtain for a while now and the conservative movement has gone from ignoring the issue to going all in on Section 230 repeal. While Section 230 repeal is an interesting tactic, and the threat of it was good leverage, it wouldn’t on its own solve the problem of conservative censorship.

If anything it might actually intensify it and lead to crackdowns on independent conservative sites while making services like Parler all but unviable.

A lot of anti-Big Tech conservatives and lefties support Section 230 repeal. And one particular organization’s support ought to be setting off alarms.

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s fairly incoherent Year in Hate and Extremism 2020 report closes with a rant about Section 230.

Read the full story from Front Page Mag


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