art b.s. bell has threatened to sue rogers cadenhead over comments posted by readers on cadenhead's workbench weblog:
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.I'd prefer not to get sued, but if he wants to test Section 230 in court, I think it's a principle worth fighting for. The blogging medium thrives on its receptivity to reader feedback. I've taken 13,000 comments on Workbench and more than 300,000 on my other sites. If a blogger was treated as the author of every statement made by a reader, there would be no way to accept comments without reviewing each one prior to publication, turning a medium for boisterous public discussion into something as controversy-averse and excessively careful as a newspaper's letters to the editor section.
