# How Broad A Shield? A Brief Overview of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
> **Legal Sidebar** · 2018-02-21 · `LSB10082`
## Report
- **CRS ID:** LSB10082
- **Series:** Legal Sidebar
- **Publication date:** 2018-02-21
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