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May 7, 2021
JASON: I served in the 115th, in which Chairman Virginia Foxx was controlling the Ed. and Workforce Committee. We were doing great things on career and technical education, the Perkins Bill, trying to get higher ed. to get some skin in the game on these student loans. Why, my seatmate on that very committee could very well be the next chairwoman of the House Republican Conference and especially, it could be a majority conference in the next Congress.
Joining me now from the great state of New York, the 21st Congressional District, Republican Elise Stefanik. She is here with us on the Rush Limbaugh Program. Elise, night to have you here.
Adam Kovacevich, a former Democratic Hill aide, is CEO of the Chamber of Progress.
In 2018, white supremacist Jared Taylor sued Twitter. Taylor a man who openly and repeatedly advocated for a majority-white nation had been banned from the platform for abusive content, a ban his lawyers called viewpoint discriminatory.
One law empowered Twitter to stop Taylor from spreading hate: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Section 230 has become a punching bag for Democrats and Republicans alike. It s been painted as a law responsible for stifling conservative speech, promoting misinformation, and letting spam run rampant on social media platforms.
Former President Trump called on Congress to repeal Section 230. And in February, Tennessee lawmakers sponsored legislation that would prohibit the state from investing in any entity protected by Section 230.
This is an op-ed by Steven Hill, former policy director at the Center for Humane Technology and author of seven books. He wrote this for InsideSources.com. Click here for an another view on this topic.
The mob attack on the U.S. Capitol was incited and planned over Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other digital media platforms, with a tragic nudge from the president of the United States. The gripping presence of gunshots and cowering Congress members inside the “People’s House” is a warning to us all. How did we arrive here?
Since the birth of the Big Tech media platforms 15 years ago, democracies around the world have been subjected to a grand experiment: Can a nation’s news and information infrastructure, which is the lifeblood of any democracy, be dependent on digital technologies that allow a global free speech zone of unlimited audience size, combined with algorithmic (non-human) curation of massive volumes of mis/disinformation, that can be spread with unprecedented eas
Commentary: Will Duffield - Repealing Section 230 would limit Americans speech
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Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act prevents digital intermediaries from being treated as the “publisher or speaker” of their users’ speech and blocks litigation over platforms’ decisions to remove speech they deem violent, obscene or otherwise objectionable. Platforms are under no obligation to remove speech, with some exceptions, but cannot be required to carry speech either. The law applies universally to digital intermediaries; Facebook is not liable for its users’ speech, and the New York Times is not liable for its comments section. By properly placing responsibility for harmful or unlawful speech with the speaker, Section 230 maximizes the ability of companies to produce publishing tools.
For a long time, social media giants have evaded any responsibility regarding content on their platforms. It has enabled malicious actors to spread misinformation and hate speech with little to no consequences. While all social media platforms self-moderate the contents, many escape scrutiny to reach thousands of users. The storming of the US Capitol by pro-Trump supporters on January 6 was one great example of how things could go wrong.
Many supporters of US President Donald Trump, who attended the protest against alleged election fraud at the US Capitol, coordinated their actions on Parler, a social media platform that has become popular amongst the right-wing groups. Many actively talked about gun violence on Parler before the protest.