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It's somewhat ironic that HN's moderators apparently changed the title of this submission from "Section 230 Is The Subject of The Most Effective Legal Propaganda I've Ever Seen" to the apparently less objectionable "What Section 230 really means"

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That's just bog standard HN moderation to make titles less baity. If we didn't do that, HN would be a completely different site—and not in a way that most HN users would appreciate. Having the titles on the front page be 'bookish' (to use pg's original term) is one of the core principles here.

We've since changed both the URL and the title.

Fair enough! It just feels like a funny meta example of why one might want to "editorialize" content without also being forced to moderate every single thing posted.

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