Among the many regulatory fronts facing tech is the question over Section 230 and the liability tech companies should face (or not) for the content hosted on their platform. The statute is 25 years old and coming under fire from all sides.

Eric Goldman, associate dean for research and professor at Santa Clara University school of law, and this week's guest, makes the case that this is just one front in a broader battle to regulate and destroy the internet as we know it. He makes the case for why Section 230 is the right framework as well as the least-worst option to the problem of "legal but awful" content, and lays out his concerns for the direction of our current political discussion.

• 0:40 minute mark – Section 230 background