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‘Safe harbour’ provision alone cannot allow social media portals from responsibility

Pfizer exec Sally Susman worked to dispel skepticism around big pharma during the COVID vaccine's rollout.

It is unusual for a clause in an act of Congress to develop a cult following, but Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act has. The clause explicitly says that the internet should not be treated like print or broadcast media, which means internet platforms do not bear any liability for third-party content.

It is unusual for a clause in an act of Congress to develop a cult following, but Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act has. The clause explicitly says that the internet should not be tre

From the column: "God did not command that the internet be treated differently from all other media."

Social media platforms should be liable for the material they host, and repealing Section 230 would do that, the Center for Economic and Policy Research's Dean Baker writes.

Meta (Facebook), Alphabet (Google), Microsoft, Twitter, and a few other tech companies have come to dominate what we see and hear on the internet, shaping hundreds of millions of people's perceptions of the world.

(OSV News) -- There is no shortage these days of proposed state and federal government legislation directed at both safety and liability in a digital environment that almost everyone -- perhaps with the exception of Big Tech companies themselves -- agrees is increasingly dangerous for kids. Following Californias successful lead, legislation in Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Utah, Virginia, and West Virginia aims to impose on soci

Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A high-stakes standoff between the U.S. government and social media app TikTok over a potential ban is set for a reckoning on Thursday when TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before a committee of House lawmakers. The China-based app, which counts more than 150 million U.S. users each month, has faced growing scrutiny from government officials over fears that user data could fall into the possession of the Chinese government and the app ...

"Many of these digital spaces our children have been dropped into were not designed with children in mind," said digital security expert Christopher McKenna.