Section 230 Reform Bill

Bernie sanders has said he would reexamine section 230 if he is elected president and trump has previously signaled at.

Section 230 reform bill. The padaa would modify section 230 to treat platforms as the speakers of algorithmically selected user speech in relation to suits brought under 42 u s c. The draft legislative text implements reforms that the department of justice deemed necessary in its june recommendations and follows a yearlong review of the outdated statute. Section 230 generally provides immunity for website publishers from third party content. The major reform needed to section 230 is to modify it so that good faith requires the platform owner to honor any representations it makes about content neutrality or about its rules.

The department identified four areas ripe for reform. Section 230 reform may continue to play a role in the 2020 campaign. Section 230 is a piece of internet legislation in the united states passed into law as part of the communications decency act cda of 1996 a common name for title v of the telecommunications act of 1996 formally codified as section 230 of the communications act of 1934 at 47 u s c. Under the communications decency act of 1996 section 230 allows protections to social media platforms from liability for anything posted by third parties on their websites.

Today on behalf of the trump administration the department of justice sent draft legislation to congress to reform section 230 of the communications decency act. What is section 230. 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. Republican senators propose drastic changes to section 230 of communications decency act with a new bill to stop platforms from silencing conservatives.