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February 12, 2026

Thirty years later, Section 230 Is protecting the wrong people

Sometimes when my teenage son attempts to educate me about the internet, I find myself tempted to quote Aslan from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, “Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written.”

Thirty years later, Section 230 Is protecting the wrong people

TL;DR

  • The author remembers the early, cumbersome dial-up internet and long download times.
  • By the mid-1990s, the internet became a 'virtual red-light district' with early exposure to pornography for children.
  • "Typosquatting" was a practice where adult-site operators registered similar domain names to legitimate ones.
  • WhiteHouse.com, a pornographic site, is given as a notorious example of typosquatting, frequently mistaken for WhiteHouse.gov.

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