Fri, Feb 5th 2021 10:55am
Mike Masnick
For the past few months we ve been seeing a ton of terrible/ridiculous/awful/unconstitutional bills coming from mostly Republicans to try to wipe out or undermine Section 230. Most of those were focused on trying to force websites to do
less content moderation. Now that the Democrats are back in power, it appears we re going to be getting the opposite. Senator Mark Warner has introduced his new Section 230 reform bill, called the SAFE TECH Act ( Safeguarding Against Fraud, Exploitation, Threats, Extremism, and Consumer Harms Act co-sponsored by Senators Mazie Hirono and Amy Klobuchar), and it is one of the worst Section 230 bills I ve seen. It is difficult to explain just how bad this bill is concisely, because it has so many bad ideas crammed into one single bill. It s as if none of these three Senators or their staff spoke to