230
Section 230 is the US law shielding online platforms from liability for what users post.
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Where 230 fits
Why 230 is special
Twenty-six words in a 1996 statute are why comment sections, social networks and review sites can exist without pre-screening everything. It is simultaneously credited with enabling the modern internet and blamed for what that has become, and proposals to amend it come from both directions.
230 is part of
Factors & digit properties
- Divisors (8)
- 1, 2, 5, 10, 23, 46, 115, 230
- Prime factorisation
- 2 × 5 × 23
- Digit sum
- 5
- Digital root
- 5
Representations
- Decimal
- 230
- Binary
- 11100110
- Octal
- 346
- Hexadecimal
- e6
- Roman numeral
- CCXXX
- Scientific notation
- 2.300 × 10^2
Other mathematical patterns
- Deficient number
- Happy number
- Harshad (Niven) number
Related numbers & connections
Section 230 was enacted in 1996 and is why user-generated content is viable in the United States. Two years later Google was founded on the assumption that the web would keep growing.
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Section 230 says a platform is not treated as the publisher of what its users post. That sentence is why user-generated content is viable at all in the United States, and why reform proposals arrive from opposite political directions with incompatible aims.
DocumentedLaw & regulationGeography: United States
Common questions
Is 230 a prime number?
No, 230 is not prime.
What are the factors of 230?
The factors of 230 are 1, 2, 5, 10, 23, 46, 115, 230.
What is 230 in Roman numerals?
230 in Roman numerals is CCXXX.
About this page's data
Mathematical facts:computed directly from the number's value — nothing to source or verify externally.
Contextual records: 1 reviewer-confirmed record, sourced and reviewed before publication.
Last reviewed: 3 August 2026