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Mon, Dec 28th 2020 11:58am — Mike Masnick A few weeks ago we noted that smaller, but still important, internet companies were working to get in the room on the discussions regarding Section 230 in Congress. The issue is that, among many in Congress and the media, they believe (falsely) that Section 230 is some sort of subsidy "only for Big Tech." As we've pointed out many times, the opposite is true. Facebook and Google have giant legal teams who can handle the liability without 230. It's everyone else who is screwed. This is why Facebook has always been first in line to undermine Section 2...

Tech Firms Form Coalition to Defend Internet Liability Shield Law A number of internet companies that are not big social media players are organizing to defend the law that shields them from lawsuits. The companies have formed a coalition called Internet Works to protect what they see as the benefits of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which has been targeted by the Trump Administration and members of Congress. Section 230 protects the internet firms from lawsuits over the content on their sites. Members of the new coalition include Automattic, Cloudflare, Dropbox, eBay, Etsy, G...

Internet Leaders Launch "Internet Works" Independent Coalition will Advocate Congress Preserve Benefits of Bedrock Internet Law News provided by Share this article Share this article WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Internet industry leaders Automattic, Cloudflare, Dropbox, eBay, Etsy, Glassdoor, GoDaddy, Medium, Nextdoor, Patreon, Pinterest, Reddit, Snap Inc., Tripadvisor, Vimeo, and the Wikimedia Foundation today announced the formation of Internet Works, a coalition that will work with Congress to promote the benefits of Section 230, a provision of the Communications Decency Act....

Tech Companies Shift Their Posture on a Legal Shield, Wary of Being Left Behind Some of the industry’s critics are skeptical, however, about a new flexibility to changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive, recently said he supported updates to Section 230.Credit...Pool photo by Greg Nash Dec. 15, 2020 WASHINGTON — For more than two decades, the tech industry had a cohesive message to Congress about a law that shields internet platforms from lawsuits: Don’t touch it. But now, as tech companies face intensifying attacks from pol...