Former president Donald Trump fiercely advocated for getting rid of Section 230 in his final months in office. Now that Democrats control the White House and Congress, a few of them have proposed their own reforms to the landmark internet speech law.
“Section 230” is a shorthand reference to one piece of the 1996 Communications Decency Act that has come to be a key protection for online platforms in the 21st century. The most noteworthy snippet of Section 230 states that “[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” Read more…
More about Facebook, Twitter, Internet, Free Speech, and Section 230
Powered by WPeMatico
