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Jeff Kosseff is Assistant Professor in the US Naval Academy's Cyber Science department, where he teaches cybersecurity law. He has practiced technology and First Amendment law, and clerked for Judges Milan D. Smith, Jr. of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and Leonie M. Brinkema of the US District Court for the Eastern District Court of Virginia. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and the recipient of the George Polk Award in National Reporting.

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"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."Did you know that these twenty-six words are responsible for much of America's multibillion-dollar online industry? What we can and cannot write, say, and do online is based on...

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I.: The Creation of Section 230
1. Eleazar Smith's Bookstore

2. The Prodigy Exception
3. Chris and Ron Do Lunch
   Part II.: The Rise of Section 230
   4. Ask for Ken
4. Himmler's Granddaughter and the Bajoran Dabo Girl
5. The Flower Child and a Trillion-Dollar Industry
6. American Exceptionalism
   Part III.: The Gradual Erosion of Section 230
   8. A Lawless No-Man's Land?
7. Hacking 230
   Part IV.: The Future of Section 230
   10. Sarah versus the Dirty Army
8. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill.
9. Moderation Inc.
10. Exceptional Exceptions
    Conclusion
    Notes
    Index