In response to the early court decisions, to avoid the chilling effect of potential liability in a medium of prolific speech, and to encourage the active monitoring, editing and removal of unlawful content online without the disincentive of having such actions lead to claims of liability for being a publisher, Congress enacted Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

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