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0 with no line-activation fees or term contract required. see if you can save by switching today. comcast business. powering possibilities. good morning. >> welcome to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. breaking news right now. critical pushback against the powers of social media today in a matter of minutes, facebook whistleblower will testify before a senate panel. she claim that is facebook is prioritizing profit over public good by knowingly peddling disinformation. in fact...

The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) was a landmark law enacted to regulate content on the internet. The purpose of the legislation was to regulate indecent and obscene material...

In This Issue - Section 230 and the Future of Content Moderation - We analyze Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act—the 1996 law that provides a legal shield for...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The success of the modern internet can, in many ways, be traced to the passing of the watershed law of internet regulation that provides immunity from civil lawsuits for platforms or other internet intermediaries that publish the content of others. This law, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (or “Section 230”) grants immunity to social media platforms, search engines, mobile apps and other internet service platforms fo...

Reintroduced bill would require tech transparency reporting First bipartisan effort in 2021 to reform tech’s liability shield March 17, 2021 2:48 PM By Rebecca Kern (Updates with industry reactions beginning in ninth paragraph.) Senators are releasing the first bipartisan bill of the year to overhaul technology platforms’ liability shield a week before the chief executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter testify before Congress about the prevalence of misinformation o...

Email* Submit Democrats and Republicans in Congress are taking aim at a controversial law that shields internet platforms including Facebook and Twitter from lawsuits over content posted by users. The measure -- just 26 words known as Section 230 -- now faces its biggest reckoning since it was included in the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Calls to revise it grew in the months before the November election and intensified after the deadly attack on Congress by then-Presi...

Internet Firms’ Liability Protection Under Fire. 26 Words and What’s at Stake Democrats and Republicans in Congress are taking aim at a controversial law that shields internet platforms including Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. from lawsuits over content posted by users. The measure — just 26 words known as Section 230 — now faces its biggest reckoning since it was included in the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Calls to revise it grew in the months before the November election and i...

Back to the Future for Section 230 Reform The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (JStephanMease, https://tinyurl.com/y6v5bjvy; CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is on the agenda for both Congress and the Biden administration this year—all the more so after the renewed discussion around technology platforms sparked by the U.S. Capitol riot and President Trump’s subsequent deplatforming from major social media ...

© press Big Tech oligarchs are given legal immunity by Section 230 Amid the recent and ongoing purge of conservatives by Big Tech, most notably the widespread banning of President Donald Trump from the Internet, calls are mounting to repeal the legal protections these Silicon Valley oligarchs enjoy. In fact, before the coordinated purge of his accounts, President Trump was threatening to revoke Section 230 - Big Techs legal immunity. Section 230 legislates Internet content and was passed into...

Democratic Senators introduce new bill to remove Section 230 internet speech protections On February 5, three Democratic Party US Senators introduced legislation called the Safeguarding Against Fraud, Exploitation, Threats, Extremism and Consumer Harms (SAFE TECH) Act, which would modify laws that provide internet companies with legal protections for content posted on their platforms by users. In a press release accompanying the draft legislation, US Senators Mark Warner of Virginia, Mazie Hiro...