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Internet Companies Launch Initiative In Support of Section 230 December 15, 2020 Some of the most prominent internet companies have formed the Internet Works coalition to promote Section 230, a key internet law. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act gives companies immunity for content users upload or post on their sites. As a result, companies like Facebook, Twitter and others cannot be held legally liable for an offensive post, picture or the like. In recent years Section 230 has come under fire, culminating in President Trump threatening to veto a defense spending bill unless Se...

De-FAAMG'd tech outfits fear being steamrolled Share Copy The second tier of tech giants have formed a new coalition focused on making sure changes coming to platform liability don’t squash them. The Internet Works coalition comprises, among others, Cloudflare, Dropbox, eBay, Etsy, GoDaddy, Nextdoor, Patreon, Pinterest, Reddit, Tripadvisor, Vimeo, and the Wikimedia Foundation, and will “work with Congress to promote the benefits of Section 230, a provision of the Communications Decency Act.” In truth, though, the decision to stand together says two things: first, that they have ...

To stop military exercises with our troops in the south and got nothing in return. he had one single phone call with erdogan and removed our troops from protecting our allies, the kurds, of which they are being slaughtered. he's been manipulated by the president of hungary to turn against ukraine which is now -- has led to this insane investigation about a dnc server. there is no dnc server. that's not how the modern internet works. it goes on and on. he needs to convey to them that he's putting the united states in peril. remember erdogan just said over the weekend he's in pursuit of a nuclea...

Something that both appeals to democrats, republicans, privacy advocate, corporate advocates, there's a big coalition to work through. this seems to be the point we're going to see something happen. the side benefit may be that we see lawmakers learning more about how the internet works which has always been a little bit of a handicap for them. the process is trying to regulate something they don't understand as well as the tech companies do. this is a way to get up to speed and actually think about what makes sense to do. >> that's been the big concern, congress is going to regulate this high...