According to Senator Ron Wyden, Section 230 was intended to resolve that contradiction by encouraging internet companies to exercise some control over content without the risk of legal sanctions. The very first sentence of the statute mentions “protection for 'good samaritan' blocking and screening of offensive material.” What Wyden and his colleagues could not have anticipated, and still do not grasp, is that the logic of this early controversy no longer holds. Neither CompuServe nor Prodigy was a surveillance capitalist, but many of today’s internet intermediaries are committed to the pursuit of surveillance revenues.

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 358