Wikipedia Group Depends Wholly on User-Generated Content
The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia and other Wiki sites, has an enormous stake in the game. As the foundation pointed out in its brief, practically all of the content on its site is user generated, as is all the other content posted to the plenty of other sites using the Wiki format.
The foundation argued that sites like theirs would be wholly in the crosshairs of lawsuits over user-generated educational posts, even though they don’t have the legal capabilities of any of the major tech companies. The foundation argued that the URLs that it “in part creates” would make them liable to the content itself should somebody take umbrage with the post.
“Section 230 ensures that websites with small budgets but large impacts can exist and compete against the big players,” the foundation wrote in its brief.
