Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 is a federal law in the United States that provides broad legal immunity to providers and users of interactive computer services (such as websites, social media platforms, and online forums) from liability for content created and posted by third-party users. Specifically, Section 230(c)(1) states that 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. This immunity allows online platforms to moderate content without legal repercussions, while also extending to platforms' good-faith efforts to moderate, restrict access to, or remove objectionable content, even if such actions are deemed erroneous or biased.