Hi, all-
As some of you certainly know, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act[1] is a key legal tool that we use to protect speech on Wikipedia.
A group of state-level attorney generals have recently asked the US federal government to weaken Sec. 230. A couple of organizations have weighed in on the proposal:
CDT: https://www.cdt.org/blogs/andrew-mcdiarmid/2507section-230-under-attack-stat...
EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/state-ags-threaten-gut-cda-230-speech-...
And a more academic take from Eric Goldman: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2287622&download=yes
This is fairly core to what we do, obviously, so Stephen and I are monitoring it closely. Your involvement (questions, proposals for action, proposals for inaction, etc.) is (as always!) welcome.
Luis
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communications_Decency_Act