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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...

State Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Texas, tells ‘Fox & Friends First’ that reforms are needed because Section 230 gives Big Tech ‘so much power.’ Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz and Republican Sen. John Thune on Wednesday rolled out a bipartisan bill that would increase "accountability" for Big Tech companies and enhance transparency regarding content moderation for users, in an effort to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The bill, titled the Platform Accountability and T...

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...

Progressive groups warn Congress against Section 230 changes Chris Mills Rodrigo © Getty Images Progressive groups warn Congress against Section 230 changes A coalition of over 70 progressive groups sent a letter to Congress Wednesday urging caution when approaching potential changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The law, which protects internet companies from liability for most content posted by third parties and allows them to do good-faith moderation, i...

The Washington Post today has several articles about the incoming administration’s, and new congress’s, thoughts and priorities on regulating tech companies. If you’re interested in this–and you should be if you’re reading this on, say, the Internet–I recommend checking them out, or at least reading the overview. Democratic leaders for years have proposed a bevy of new legislation to shrink Silicon Valley’s corporate footprint, restrict its insatiable appetite for data and stop ...

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