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> Without the immunity provided by Section 230, there might very well be no Twitter, or Facebook, or dating apps, or basically any website with a comments section.

Going on that description, a bit of me wishes for Section 230 to be repealed.

Of course there would be no GitHub either, which wouldn't be so great.

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I don't think you fully understand the scope of what section 230 protects against. Even running an email server could put people at risk of being held liable for crimes, if users were to use that server to coordinate criminal acts. Revoking section 230 essentially mandates total surveillance of user activity.

So you would have to run your own email server or be given access to one by someone who trusts you, which would be a better situation in some ways than the Gmail monoculture we have today. Google likely has your mail on one end or the other; you're already under surveillance; Section 230 hasn't saved you.

And that email server has to be in a datacenter you own, because AWS doesn't exist. (What is AWS if not hosting user-generated content?)

And if you run a tor node, then you're liable for anything someone does with tor.

And if you host a blockchain mirror.

And...

There's already child pornography in the Bitcoin blockchain, right?

Yep!

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