Page 21 - Section 230 News Today

Here is a look at tech and politics news from the last week.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said on Sunday that he was working on a bill with legislators in his state that would prevent big tech companies from taking moderation actions against users based on their viewpoint.

Twenty five years ago today, then President Bill Clinton signed the 1996 Telecommunications Act into law. There was a lot in it, including the Communications Decency Act. And, buried within the Communications Decency Act was a part that was originally the Internet Freedom and Family Empowerment Act, written by then Representatives Chris Cox and Ron Wyden, but which is now generally known as Section 230. The rest of the CDA was tossed out as unconstitutional in an important early judicial revie...

Need further assistance? Please call Member Services at 1-800-333-0663 What Congress Section 230 Debate Means for the Future of Online Speech CR explains how this provision of the Communications Decency Act protects online speech and why its become so controversial By Allen St. John

Just because Senators Warner, Hirono, and Klobuchar are apparently oblivious to how their SAFE TECH bill would destroy the Internet...

Democrat lawmakers have introduced a bill to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, seeking to make big tech companies more accountable and force them to police their content more stringently.

The FacebookGoogleTwitter media giants have been misused frequently by bad actors for disinformation campaigns in more than 70 countries to undermine elections, even helping elect a quasi-dictator in the Philippines;

Here’s a data point deserving of attention: More Republicans than Democrats want to restrain or even break up Big Tech.  According to a new poll by Vox and Data for Progress, 70 percent of Republicans think “Big Tech’s economic power is a problem facing the U.S. economy.” At the same time, 59 percent of Democrats feel that way.   This partisan split—Republicans tougher on Tech than Democrats—is further visible on the issue of remedies: 61 percent of Republicans want to “break...

New laws regulating social media could soon be on the way with a push from both sides of the political aisle.

December 3, 2020 Seemingly everyone in Washington, DC wants to scrap Section 230, a snippet of the 1996 Communications Decency Act originally designed to help websites moderate online porn. On Dec. 2, US president Donald Trump threatened to veto a normally bipartisan military funding bill unless Congress “completely terminated” Section 230. That stance is a rare point of agreement with his successor, president-elect Joe Biden, who told the New York Times that “Section 230 should be revoke...