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Tue, Mar 9th 2021 10:42am — Mike Masnick We've been highlighting a wide variety of state bills from Republican-led legislatures that all attempt to attack Section 230. Nearly all of them are blatantly unconstitutional attacks on the 1st Amendment. Somewhat incredibly, the latest one from Tennessee might not actually be unconstitutional. That doesn't mean it's good. In fact, it's not just incredibly stupid, but demonstrates that the bill's authors/sponsors are so fucking clueless that they have no idea what they're doing. In effect, they'd be banning the state from investing any money it hol...

Tom Brenner/Reuters He also recently hired another antitrust activist to serve as a White House economic advisor. These moves signal Biden's aggressive stance against tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook. President Joe Biden is poised to nominate Lina Khan, a top antitrust lawyer, to the Federal Trade Commission, Politico's Playbook reported Tuesday. The decision is a sign of Biden's aggressive stance against tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon, who have long drawn criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Democrats accuse them of th...

WSJ Editorial Board Suggests Revising Section 230 Protections for Big Tech The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial board came out this week to express support for curtailing broad legal protections for technology companies after one of the newspaper’s opinion articles was fact-checked by Facebook. “We’ve been leery of proposals in Congress to modify Section 230 protections that shield internet platforms from liability. But social-media giants are increasingly adding phony fact checks and removing articles flagged by left-leaning users without explanation,” the board wrote in an op-ed ...

Republican state lawmakers are pushing for social media giants to face costly lawsuits for policing content on their websites, taking aim at a federal law that prevents internet companies from being sued for removing posts. GOP politicians in roughly two dozen states have introduced bills that would allow for civil lawsuits against platforms for what they call the “censorship” of posts. The federal liability shield has long been a target of former President Donald Trump and other Republicans, whose complaints about Silicon Valley stifling conservative viewpoints were amplified ...

March 04, 2021 11:00 PMLegal - By LOS ANGELES—The “Eliminating Abuse and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technology Act,” a United States Senate bill aimed at curtailing “sex trafficking” online — a bill that civil liberties experts say could damage online privacy, and could hit sex workers and the adult industry especially hard — died without a vote at the end of the previous two-year congressional session. But the bill, better known as EARN IT, is set to make a comeback in the current 177th Congress, according to a report by Bloomberg News. The bill would roll back certain pro...