Who's Who in the Russian Presidential Elections
(Archived document, may contain errors) No. 107 June 6, 1996 WHO'S WHO IN THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS By Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. Senior Policy Analyst INTRODUCTION
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(Archived document, may contain errors) No. 107 June 6, 1996 WHO'S WHO IN THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS By Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. Senior Policy Analyst INTRODUCTION
The Supreme Court is hearing the case <em>Gonzalez v. Google</em> amid growing demands from different factions of the U.S. political establishment to either remove the Section 230 liability shield entirely or strengthen its censorship provisions to impose a much harsher regime of government control and regulation of social media and internet content.
Section 230 dictates that online platforms aren't responsible for the effects of users' speech, which has allowed the internet to become a massive ideological marketplace.
It's always astounding to me how little most policymakers consider how many of the policies they push for contradict one another. On Wednesday, the Texas Senate easily approved its version of HB20, the blatantly unconstitutional bill that tries to prevent social media websites from moderating content that Texas Republicans want kept up -- explicitly saying…