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Section 230 has been described as "the most important law protecting internet speech" and "the 26 words that created the internet."
February 18, 2021 9:16 PMLegal - By LOS ANGELES—A California state senator has introduced a bill that would make online sites liable for non-consensual sexual images and videos uploaded by users. Titled the “Ending Online Sexual Trafficking and Exploitation Act,” SB-435 sponsored by San Jose Democrat Dave Cortese (pictured above) — a former Santa Clara County supervisor who was elected to the state senate in 2020 — would allow alleged victims of non-consensual image sharing to sue sites and platforms that display the image, potentially collecting damages of $100,000 for every two h...
Fri, Feb 19th 2021 10:52am — Mike Masnick Earlier this month, we wrote about how various Republicans in state legislatures were introducing blatantly unconstitutional bills that tried to do away with Section 230 and which all attempted to block the ability of websites to do any content moderation. Many of the bills were nearly identical (and may have come from Chris Sevier, the profoundly troubled individual, who somehow keeps convincing state legislators to introduce blatantly unconstitutional bills that attack speech online). One of the bills we mentioned was from North Dakota. Lawyer Ak...
February 17, 2021 10:20 PMLegal - By LOS ANGELES—New legislation from three Senate Democrats would create the broadest exceptions to online speech protections yet proposed. After more than a year of threats to Section 230, the “First Amendment of the Internet,” under the Donald Trump administration, Democrats in the United States Senate have introduced a new bill to “reform” the 25-year-old law in ways that, according to one top free speech lawyer, appears to be “a new idea to destroy Section 230.” Speaking February 11 at the #interNEXT2021 conference, attorney Corey Siverstein...