Section 230 Changes

Those changes could greatly restrict platforms abilities to police hate speech and.

Section 230 changes. Barr said he d send a section 230 proposal to congress and he s doing it. 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. Two bipartisan proposals to change section 230 have gained traction in recent months. The electronic frontier foundation a non profit digital rights organization stresses that section 230 does not just apply to the social media giants suggesting that any major changes to the.

Republicans and democrats are considering reforms to weaken liability protections for social media companies. It runs only 26 words long short and to the point. But it has had an outsize affect on life as we know it. A trio of republican senators have proposed sweeping changes to section 230 of the communications decency act.

Wyden said corporations lobbying for changes to section 230 are doing so to find an advantage against big tech companies whenever laws are passed to put the government in control of speech. The doj released a proposal for how it would change the current text of the law. Section 230 is a part of federal legislation passed more than 20 years ago. Democrats propose section 230 changes say facebook algorithms cradle violent extremists.