Section 230 Bipartisan
Section 230 has drawn sharp criticism from the left as well.
Section 230 bipartisan. The bipartisan legislation to update section 230 of the communications decency act aims to strengthen transparency related to content moderation policies on social media platforms while also holding companies accountable for illegal content and content posted in violation of their own policies. Barr said he d send a section 230 proposal to congress and he s doing it. In the 2020 election killing section 230 is the only bipartisan issue while trump is attacking section 230 biden has also called for it to be revoked sep 23 2020 6 03 pm. And even without 230.
Democrats have attacked the statute for allowing silicon valley to deflect responsibility for. In june senators john thune and brian schatz both members of the committee issuing subpoenas introduced a bipartisan section 230 bill known as the pact act that focused mostly on moderation. Trump blasted tiktok for collecting vast swaths of data his 2020 app does the same thing. This year social media companies have begun to block more social media posts whether they contain coronavirus.
But overall the sense of a need to regulate platforms is bipartisan. In the 2020 election killing section 230 is the only bipartisan issue. The bipartisan approach. The doj released a proposal for how it would change the current text of the law.
There is a bipartisan consensus that section 230 which governs certain internet use is ripe for reform thune said in a statement wednesday.