# On Section 230 and the Dream of a More Human Internet - Cal Newport

<https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2023/02/22/on-section-230-and-the-dream-of-a-more-human-internet/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Newport highlights that the services that would be most negatively impacted by Section 230 being weakened are precisely the ones that do the most damage to people and society. I think that Section 230 makes sense for many uses. However, when a platform starts using an algorithm to prioritize some content over the other, I believe it is completely appropriate that the Section 230 protections should be lessened or removed. If you operate as pure plumbing, simply routing characters around that is way different than was most social platforms do today.

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