Section 230 Censorship

The most immediate catalyst for this increased state scrutiny is the recent suppression of a piece of reporting from the ny post newspaper alleging corruption on the part of one of the candidates in the imminent us presidential election.

Section 230 censorship. Very few lawmakers would deny that the key to rebalancing the scales lies in reforming section 230 of the communications decency act but fewer still can agree on what that reform should look like. Later today the us internet giants will be grilled by the senate over how they censor their platforms with section 230 protections at stake. Section 230 was introduced by sen. Never before have we seen active censorship of a major press publication with serious.

Reforming the law is the first step to restoring the free flow of ideas online and expanding the reach of its principles through. Chris cox r calif as a way of protecting tech companies from becoming legally liable for their users content if they opted. 15 following the post s reporting on hunter biden and the subsequent censorship. Section 230 was designed to prevent internet companies from.

Clarify the meaning of section 230 on oct. All in all even if immediate reform or repeal of section 230 is not in the cards there is much that can be done to address big tech censorship. In reality section 230 protects big tech censorship in the u s. Ron wyden d ore and former rep.

Prominent among the ground rules governing that debate is the immunity from liability created by section 230 c of the communications decency act section 230 c. Some of these may actually address the problem for the most part without even touching that provision which may be the best possible outcome. Section 230 generally provides immunity for website publishers from third party content.