Section 230 Video

After twitter added a factcheck to one of the president s tweets he tweeted revoke 230 referring to part of the 1996 communications decency act.

Section 230 video. The electronic frontier foundation calls section 230 the most important law protecting internet speech but the fcc wants to tinker with it. Trump forcefully calls for end of section 230 protections for big tech after censorship wave the communications decency act is being abused by social media giants to shield them against legal ramifications when they censor free speech or political information. Section 230 has also been repeatedly cited as the reason why revenge porn websites are hard to shut down and was the primary reason backpage a classifieds website that enabled sex trafficking. Section 230 of the communications decency act has been called the most important law protecting internet speech.

So what is it. Section 230 is the law that empowers online services to keep bad content off their platforms. The ceos of twitter facebook and alphabet defended section 230 which gives online companies immunity from legal liability for user generated content and latitude to control what appears on their. The fcc wants to tinker with it.

So let s talk section 230 and its future when you hear.