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That’s the irony of all this,” said Nathaniel Persily, a Stanford University law professor who studies technology and democracy. It’s really not clear that you can change 230 (which is part of a law, let’s remember) without congressional approval. And even if you could, all the usual concerns about changing 230 still apply.
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