Section 230 Debate

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Section 230 debate. Section 230 does need work though there s plenty of room for debate about exactly how to fix it. Critics of section 230 reform often focus on defending the publisher versus platform distinction arguing for the importance of not treating social media platforms as the publisher or speaker of. The debate over section 230 of the communications decency act is no exception. Somewhere in this waste of taxpayers dollars and our time is a meaty policy issue.

The 1996 internet law under debate section 230 of the communications decency act allowed websites like. In my view this little tale shows that it is too crude to say yes or no to the question whether congress should eliminate section 230 of the communications decency act which states no. Last week trump met with republican state attorneys. Section 230 gives digital platforms two immunities one for publishing users speech and one for censoring users speech.

Section 230 as it s commonly known provides interactive computer services that is anything from web hosts to websites to social media companies with broad immunity from civil cases over the. President victims of libel parents conspiracy theorists lawyers doctors your neighbor most everyone outside silicon valley seems to have a beef with. Los angeles president donald trump called for a repeal of section 230 a law widely credited for creating the internet as we know it today. S ection 230 of the communications decency act of 1996 is arguably the best law congress has passed in the last three decades.

Section 230 flipped that result. Section 230 was developed in response to a pair of lawsuits against internet service providers isp s in the early 1990s that had different interpretations of whether the service providers should be treated as publishers or distributors of content created by its users. So it is only natural that both presidential candidates all of.