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Email* Submit Democrats and Republicans in Congress are taking aim at a controversial law that shields internet platforms including Facebook and Twitter from lawsuits over content posted by users. The measure -- just 26 words known as Section 230 -- now faces its biggest reckoning since it was included in the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Calls to revise it grew in the months before the November election and intensified after the deadly attack on Congress by then-President Donald Trump's loyalists. Trump and his GOP allies claim Section 230 gives companies leeway to ...

Internet Firms’ Liability Protection Under Fire. 26 Words and What’s at Stake Democrats and Republicans in Congress are taking aim at a controversial law that shields internet platforms including Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. from lawsuits over content posted by users. The measure — just 26 words known as Section 230 — now faces its biggest reckoning since it was included in the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Calls to revise it grew in the months before the November election and intensified after the deadly attack on Congress by then-President Donald Trump’s loyalists. “No p...

Back to the Future for Section 230 Reform The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (JStephanMease, https://tinyurl.com/y6v5bjvy; CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is on the agenda for both Congress and the Biden administration this year—all the more so after the renewed discussion around technology platforms sparked by the U.S. Capitol riot and President Trump’s subsequent deplatforming from major social media platforms. Just recently, members of Congress and congressional aides reported conversations with th...

© press Big Tech oligarchs are given legal immunity by Section 230 Amid the recent and ongoing purge of conservatives by Big Tech, most notably the widespread banning of President Donald Trump from the Internet, calls are mounting to repeal the legal protections these Silicon Valley oligarchs enjoy. In fact, before the coordinated purge of his accounts, President Trump was threatening to revoke Section 230 - Big Tech's legal immunity. Section 230 legislates Internet content and was passed into law as part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Written in the earlier days of the web, Sec...

Democratic Senators introduce new bill to remove Section 230 internet speech protections On February 5, three Democratic Party US Senators introduced legislation called the Safeguarding Against Fraud, Exploitation, Threats, Extremism and Consumer Harms (SAFE TECH) Act, which would modify laws that provide internet companies with legal protections for content posted on their platforms by users. In a press release accompanying the draft legislation, US Senators Mark Warner of Virginia, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota state that their proposal aims to “allow social media ...