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6:30 Dani Pinter, Chief Legal Officer and Director of the Law Center for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation https://endsexualexploitation.org/about/staff/dani-pinter/
Founded in 1962, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is the leading national non-partisan organization exposing the links between all forms of sexual exploitation such as child sexual abuse, prostitution, sex trafficking and the public health harms of pornography.
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is urging Congress to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, as the law turns 30 years old on February 8, 2026. NCOSE named Section 230 to its 2025 Dirty Dozen List.
WASHINGTON, DC (February 5, 2026) – The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is urging Congress to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, as the law turns 30 years old on February 8, 2026. NCOSE named Section 230 to its 2025 Dirty Dozen List.
“The billion-dollar tech industry currently exists above the law because of Section 230. Courts have misinterpreted Section 230’s intent, protecting social media platforms even when they commit heinous crimes such as knowingly distributing and profiting from child sexual abuse material. Rather than incentivizing tech companies to make their platforms safer, Section 230 has emboldened them to recklessly pursue profits at any cost. As a result, the tech industry is larger and more profitable than any industry on the planet and effectively shielded from any liability for harm to consumers,” said Dani Pinter, Chief Legal Officer and Director of the Law Center at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.
“Section 230 is titled, ‘Protection for ‘Good Samaritan’ blocking and screening of offensive material.’ By its title and purpose, this provision was passed by Congress to protect children and incentivize websites of the then-nascent Internet industry to voluntarily take steps to make their platforms safe. Instead, Section 230 has become a shield against accountability for Big Tech’s bad-faith decisions.
“Our 2025 Dirty Dozen List highlighted 12 survivors who were prevented from receiving justice because of Section 230. In one case, a teenage boy was extorted by a predator on Snapchat into sending images (child sexual abuse material, or CSAM) of himself; those images were widely circulated on Twitter. Despite that he reported the images and sex trafficking to Twitter, the company responded by telling him that it had reviewed the CSAM but would not remove the images, which continued to circulate while Twitter profited. The trial and appeals courts ruled that Twitter (now X) was immune under Section 230 for profiting from his sex trafficking and even for knowing possession and distribution of CSAM.
“We cannot permit this any longer. And with the rise of artificial intelligence, this is even more urgent. We urge Congress to pass the bipartisan-supported ‘Sunset Section 230 Act’ to repeal Big Tech’s liability shield to hold Big Tech accountable, give survivors access to justice, and prevent online sexual abuse and exploitation at a mass scale,” Pinter said.
Watch Ms. Pinter speak during a February 4 press conference about CDA 230: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzueOHzfGWE. Read Ms. Pinter’s latest column about Section 230 at The Hill, “Social media is a sex trafficking marketplace — US law creates a safe haven.”
7:10 Greg Roberts www.RogueWeather.com with today’s Outdoor Report, and the latest on a wolf predation meeting in Butte Falls.
8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers – retired professor of business law www.DennisPowersBooks.com with “Where Past Meets Present”
Dick Fosbury’s Ground-Breaking Flop
By Dennis Powers
Dick Fosbury grew up in Medford and when at Medford High School, he wanted to play different sports. By his own admission, he was a “fair” basketball player (but usually on the bench), a “terrible” hurdler, and tried football as a third-string end. He gave that up in his junior year, when his good-friend Bill “Earthquake” Enyart (who went onto playing in the NFL) blocked him so hard that Fosbury lost two front teeth in one drill.
He figured out that his “lankiness” shouldn’t be as much a problem in the high jump. When using the standard “scissors” kick, he had cleared 5-foot, 4-inches in junior high and had even won a meet or two. His varsity high-school coach, however, insisted on the Western Roll (kicking ones outer, rather than inner leg over the bar), but he just couldn’t get it down.
In 1963, the sophomore was on the team bus for a Rotary meet at Grants Pass with twelve schools. He decided that he would do whatever it took for “one last jump.” If he couldn’t clear 5-foot, 4-inches, then he would always be a third-stringer. At the meet, he cleared that bar; on his next jump, he went 2 inches higher by arching slightly backwards. Driven by desperation, he added another 2 inches by reclining even more and heading further backwards over the bar.
By now coaches and competitors alike were staring at his form. On his fourth attempt, he cleared another 2 inches for 5-foot, 10-inches and was completely on his back as he sailed over. To add 1/2-foot in height in high jumping–and in only two hours–was unheard of. The coaches began arguing: Was this move legal, allowable, safe, and what in the heck was it?
Fosbury had spontaneously created a style of his own, totally fracturing what had been taught or used before. It was on-site engineering, where he was driven–by any means possible–to get over a higher bar and beat his rivals. This was serendipity at its highest. During the next full year of his upside-down technique, Fosbury began to lean with his shoulder some 45 degrees to the bar, arch over on his back, and broke the school record of 6-foot, 3-inches.
The novelty continued. One newspaper headlined the image of one of his jumps: “The World’s Laziest High Jumper.” But it was the Medford Mail-Tribune in 1964 that gave a lead of “Fosbury Flops over the Bar.” A reporter had returned, said that Fosbury looked like a fish flopping into a boat, and so came the name, the “Fosbury Flop.”
He placed second at the state championships in his senior year (1965), and then headed to Oregon State University. A contrarian at heart, Fosbury hardly practiced the Flop, saying that “there’s no use wearing myself out.” Promoters invited him to their events just due to the hype that followed.
Fosbury ultimately perfected his head-first leap by approaching the bar in a semicircle, pushing off his left foot, and landing full on his back. (The key was to land on ones shoulders, not the neck, and always on a foam pad.) The Los Angeles Times wrote that he “goes over the bar like a guy being pushed out of a 30-story window.” Sports Illustrated had: “He charges up from slightly to the left of centre with a gait that may call to mind a two-legged camel,” and having flung himself over the bar back first, “he extends himself like a slightly apprehensive man lying back on a chaise longue that’s too short for him.”
He first cleared 7-feet during the 1968 indoor season and won the NCAA’s that year. He won the Gold Medal at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games by clearing 7-foot, 4-1/4 inches, breaking the Olympic and American records. When he returned to Medford, a ticker-tape parade was held for him, but with no buildings taller than two stories, the kids had to run alongside his car to shower him with confetti. He went on The Tonight Show and tried to teach Johnny Carson and fellow guest Bill Cosby how to do the Flop. He slipped, however, on his attempt when he tried doing this with his dress shoes on. Other shows included The Dating Game.
He was top ranked in the world following his 1968 victory, and in 1969 Fosbury won his second NCAA title before placing second in the National AAU meet, plus adding his third Pacific-8 championship. He graduated from OSU in 1969 and trained for the 1972 Olympics but didn’t make the team, having lost his competitive interest by his own admission. Turning professional in 1973, he joined the International Track Association for a few seasons and then retired.
Fosbury moved to Ketchum, Idaho, in 1976 and founded an engineering firm. He was elected to the U.S.A. Track & Field Hall of Fame in 1981 and the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1992. He is a past president and was on the Executive Committee of the World Olympians Association, as well as vice president of the U.S. Olympians Association. He is retired now and living on a 20-acre ranch south of Sun Valley, Idaho, Dick Fosbury is still remembered as one of the most influential athletes in the history of track and field, however, thanks to the Fosbury Flop that’s now the standard worldwide for high-jumping.
Sources: “About Dick,” Dick Fosbury’s Official Website, at Fosbury Bio; “USA Track & Field: Hall of Fame” at Track Bio; YouTube video, “Sportholder: Dick Fosbury Flop,” at Olympic Video. See also Richard Hoffer, “The Revolutionary,” Sports Illustrated, September 14, 2009.