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One of the internet’s primary protections is on the verge of an overhaul. Section 230 part of the Communications Decency Act shields online companies, including tech platforms and publishers, from being liable for the content that others post to their sites. But, amid outcries over disinformation, hate speech and concerns about biased decisions to kick people off social media platforms, Democratic and Republican lawmakers alike have proposed changing Section 230 over the past year. The most recent reform proposal is the SAFE TECH Act, which was introduced on Feb. 5 by Democratic Sens. Mark Warner of Virginia, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. The bill would make platforms like Facebook and Twitter liable when paid content posted on their sites is used to target vulnerable people. But some lawyers and media executives say the SAFE TECH Act and other reform proposals would remove legal protections that helped the web thrive in the first place. ....
.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... President Joe Biden on Friday received his second letter of the week from lawmakers in Rocky Mountain states raising concerns about the Air Force’s decision to locate the U.S. Space Command headquarters in Alabama. New Mexico Sens. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján and U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, all Democrats, wrote Biden asking for a “comprehensive review” of the decision. Earlier in the week, Biden received a similar letter from Colorado’s congressional delegation. Both Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs and Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque were on the final list of six cities under consideration for the headquarters. But the Trump administration in its final days in power picked Alabama. ....
Jan. 27: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) reintroduced her legislation to reverse a damaging rule change made by the Trump administration that increased out-of-pocket costs for millions of Americans and made fewer Americans eligible for the Affordable Care Act s (ACA) premium tax credits, while also causing those who are eligible to receive less in tax credit support. The Trump administration changed the index by which eligibility for the ACA s premium tax credits and maximum out-of-pocket limits are set each year, resulting in a 2.5 percent increase in the maximum out-of-pocket limit in 2020 compared to where out-of-pocket limits would have been under the old indexing factor. This change resulted in a ....
This hasn t stopped other platforms like Gab from growing as it seemed to target disillusioned conservatives by similarly calling itself the free speech social network. Nothing in U.S. law makes it explicitly illegal to give a certain group a platform, even at the risk of hosting smaller, domestic extremist groups, said Alex Stamos, director of the Cyber Policy Center’s Internet Observatory and former chief security officer at Facebook. You re going to continue to see the separation from the companies that are trying to go after the (extremist) groups versus those that aren t, which is not something I think we actually have a good history of or demonstration of what s going to happen, he said. ....