Why is the internet the way it is? In Web 1.0, a new six-part podcast series, Irish Times videographer Enda O’Dowd explores the arguments and innovations that were happening back when the web was new, and how they reverberate in today’s messy and chaotic online world.
This episode tells the unlikely origin story of Section 230, a clause within a US law originally designed to clean up the internet, and how 26 words within Section 230 create the conditions for the online world we know today.
Featuring a US Senator concerned about pornography, an ambitious undergraduate, a credulous magazine journalist, a former broker who was portrayed by Jonah Hill in The Wolf of Wall Street - and an army of anonymous online posters.
Web 1.0 is reported, produced and edited by Enda O’Dowd. Listen to all episodes here.
