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I've already explained how Senator Mark Warner's "SAFE TECH Act" is an attack on the open internet. However, it goes...

July 23, 2021 published at 2:27 AMReuters Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) speaks during the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States on the West Front of the US Capitol in Washington, US, January 20, 2021 Reuters WASHINGTON - Two Democratic US senators on Thursday (July 22) will add to the stack of Bills going after Section 230 - a law that protects tech companies from being sued over content posted by users - making such platforms responsible for health-related misinforma...

U.S. senators aim to stop vaccine misinformation by going after tech’s legal immunity FILE PHOTO: Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) speaks to the media after the Senate Democratic policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 22, 2021. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts July 23, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two Democratic U.S. senators on Thursday will add to the stack of bills going after Section 230 – a law that protects tech companies from being sued over content posted by users – making...

Senators Add Vaccine Misinformation as Reason to Alter Tech Firms’ Liability Protection Two Democratic U.S. senators on Thursday will add to the stack of bills going after Section 230 – a law that protects tech companies from being sued over content posted by users – making such platforms responsible for health-related misinformation. The legislation introduced by Amy Klobuchar and Ben Ray Lujan requires internet platforms such as Facebook to take down health and vaccine-related misinform...

Rather than a CEO-slamming sound bite free-for-all, Tuesday's big tech hearing on algorithms aimed for more of a listening session vibe — and in that sense it mostly succeeded. The hearing centered on testimony from the policy leads at Facebook, YouTube and Twitter rather than the chief executives of those companies for a change. In the hearing, lawmakers bemoaned social media echo chambers and the ways that the algorithms pumping content through platforms are capable of completely...

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 ...

  The presidential campaign of Joe Biden received considerable donations from employees of tech companies, campaign finance records reveal, with Apple employees reportedly the fourth-largest source of funding. President Joe Bidens campaign and supporting joint fundraising committees saw a high level of donations from employees linked to the five tech giants for the 2020 election, an investigation reveals. Employees from Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook provided at least $15.1 ...

February 17, 2021 10:20 PMLegal - By LOS ANGELES—New legislation from three Senate Democrats would create the broadest exceptions to online speech protections yet proposed. After more than a year of threats to Section 230, the “First Amendment of the Internet,” under the Donald Trump administration, Democrats in the United States Senate have introduced a new bill to “reform” the 25-year-old law in ways that, according to one top free speech lawyer, appears to be “a new idea to dest...

As one front in a battle against big tech influence and power, more Democratic leaders are examining Section 230 of the Communications Decency act, and its role in protecting tech companies.