Section 230 Amendment

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Section 230 amendment. The section 230 amendment was folded into the communications decency act an attempt to regulate indecent material on the internet without much opposition or debate. Section 230 s immunity provision however was left intact. And if section 230 and the first amendment both equally dictate defense wins society as a whole benefits from reaching that result as quickly and cheaply as possible. The proposed amendment would alter section 230 of the communications decency act cda to require isp s and host sites to remove defamatory injurious and or illegal content from their site when given notice such content exists.

In the united states the first amendment prohibits the government from restricting most forms of speech which would include. Section 230 generally provides immunity for website publishers from third party content. Section 230 is a piece of internet legislation in the united states passed into law as part of the communications decency act cda of 1996 a common name for title v of the telecommunications act of 1996 formally codified as section 230 of the communications act of 1934 at 47 u s c. Fallon jr strict judicial scrutiny 54 ucla l.

Thus section 230 has become the enemy of the united states and of democracy and it must be destroyed. Or it will destroy the 1st amendment free speech and the united states in that order. The section 230 protection has stopped twitter from taking action against the inflammatory content mr trump is prone to post but the social media company may have to change that if it is legally. What s the relationship between section 230 and the first amendment.