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As Marc Benioff Calls For A Better World, Salesforce Lawyers Are Doing The Opposite

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"Were Section 230 to be abolished, as Benioff wants, it might actually hurt Facebook’s competitors more than it would hurt Facebook — not exactly the outcome Benioff seems to be hoping for. “Just crossing out 230 and leaving the courts to figure it out, I think, would be catastrophic,” Daphne Keller, the director of intermediary liability at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, told BuzzFeed News. “We would have years and years of uncertainty. And that uncertainty would hurt little companies, who can’t afford to litigate things, worse than big companies.”"