Volunteers distributed donated water and other essential items in Austin, Texas, after a deadly winter storm. Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times 
得克薩斯州逐步恢復供電，但混亂仍在持續。寒潮造成水井凍結、處理廠仍在使用備用電源運行，使得多地飲用水短缺；日常生活必需品的供應量也在持續下降。拜登已宣布得州進入緊急狀態。與此同時，該州參議員特德·克魯茲在危機期間與家人飛往墨西哥的行為遭到外界批評。
•美國人去年上半年預期壽命下降整整一年。這是該數據自二戰以來最大的降幅，也顯示了新冠病毒致命後果的嚴峻程度。預期壽命指新生兒預期可活的平均年數，是衡量人口健康的最基本指標。
Section 230 of America's Communications Decency Act shields online platforms from liability for third-party content. For now
Some government officials have recently questioned the necessity of Section 230。Repealing or amending Section 230 would endanger the openness of the Internet.
Tucked inside the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 is one of the most valuable tools for protecting freedom of expression and innovation on the Internet: Section 230.
This comes somewhat as a surprise, since the original purpose of the legislation was to restrict free speech on the Internet. The Internet community as a whole objected strongly to the Communications Decency Act, and with EFF's help, the anti-free speech provisions were struck down by the Supreme Court. But thankfully, CDA 230 remains and in the years since has far outshone the rest of the law.
Section 230 says 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" (47 U.S.C. § 230). In other words, online intermediaries that host or republish speech are protected against a range of laws that might otherwise be used to hold them legally responsible for what others say and do. The protected intermediaries include not only regular Internet Service Providers (ISPs), but also a range of "interactive computer service providers," including basically any online service that publishes third-party content. Though there are important exceptions for certain criminal and intellectual property-based claims, CDA 230 creates a broad protection that has allowed innovation and free speech online to flourish.
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