Section 230 Free Speech

A generation of young people has grown up knowing nothing but the freedom to speak online.

Section 230 free speech. Even well intended proposes to alter that immunity should be viewed with skepticism. Most notably after a few years of threatening action the president issued an executive order about section 230 its liability protections and free speech online. Protecting section 230 is crucial to defending free speech online especially by those without power and influence such as the protesters against police violence writes ron wyden a senator from. An entire contemporary culture of speech and debate exists thanks to section 230.

But it has had an outsize affect on life as we know it. Section 230 and the federal communications commission my name is nick marr. Section 230 stayed and the law that was initially meant to restrict free speech on the internet instead became the law that protected it. Because section 230 is used to achieve the opposite of this goal senators josh hawley and ted cruz have floated the idea of conditioning section 230 immunity on free speech.

This protection has allowed the internet to thrive. I am assistant director of practice groups at the federalist society. In august 2019 former presidential candidate beto o rourke proposed amending section 230 to make it easier to sue big tech platforms if they failed to remove hate speech and terrorist content. Section 230 holds with the american value of free information exchange.

My article with jennifer huddleston about section 230 its free speech benefits and the common law precedents for section 230 was published in the oklahoma law review earlier this. This afternoon august 24 2020 we ll be discussing with a panel of distinguished experts free speech in the digital era. However many argue that the internet of 2020 does not remotely resemble that of the internet when the cda was originally passed nearly 25 years ago.