Section 230 Reddit

Benjamin lee reddit s general counsel gets emotional about the potential loss of section 230 of the communications decency act.

Section 230 reddit. The past few months have seen plenty of attempts to undermine section 230 the law that makes a free internet possible. Fcc federal communications commission removes section 230 protections from reddit and they get held liable for everything on their site. Imagine if cnn published content in the way of wanting to kill the president. But now we re seeing one from a surprising place.

Reddit does that every day all over the site. The california league of cities. This is a really important point because it s section 230 that protects those subreddit moderators from liability. Section 230 reform may continue to play a role in the 2020 campaign.

Even well intended proposes to alter that immunity should be viewed with skepticism. However section 230 contains a clause which has been the subject of a lot of legal debate. Section 230 considered the key to silicon valley s meteoric rise in the last two decades has come under bipartisan scrutiny since the 2016 presidential election. The ceo of reddit would be held liable for that content without 230 protections.

Reddit is urging the federal communications commission fcc to reject a petition for rulemaking to amend section 230 of the communications decency act saying that if the section changes it. Bernie sanders has said he would reexamine section 230 if he is elected president and trump has previously signaled at. To be clear the league of cities an association of city officials from around the state doesn t have the power to change section 230 or any other federal law. Section 230 holds with the american value of free information exchange.

That s because lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to revisit this piece of legislation from 1996 though. You may have heard the phrase section 230 uttered a lot this election cycle.