Posted on 04/28/2022 11:05:13 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday is introducing a bill to abolish Section 230 — the law the protects online platforms from liability — on the heels of Twitter accepting Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company and take it private.
Greene’s bill would eliminate the law making online platforms not liable for content posted by third parties and replace it with a provision to require “reasonable, non-discriminatory access to online communications platforms” through a “common carrier” framework that Greene compared to airlines or package delivery services.
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This seems common sense and hopefully some other members of Congress and the Senate get a board because I don’t believe she has the credibility to move this. Hopefully with Elon musk buying Twitter, they will finally pass this live nothing else to avoid him censoring Democrats.
I assume there is no current publishing of the actual bill’s wording yet?
Tech companies finance the corrupt whose votes she needs 🤪
“But if I’m the one to do it
They’ll run their quill pens through it
I’m obnoxious and disliked you know that’s so”
1776
NO!!
its a trap
Sites will then be able to get sued because of the content people post and it would lead to MORE censorship
“unlawful content”
whose laws? each and every censorship law for all 500 “nations” and their one billion internal governing subdivisions?
It’s amazing how the useless Republicans couldn’t find a way to do this.
It’s not a trap. Abolishing section 230 will bring these platforms to heel.
The trap is anti-trust where small government conservatives become cheerleaders for big government anti-capitalist schemes.
Dittos.
“...I don’t believe she has the credibility to move this.”
Really? Please explain.
It’s not a trap. Abolishing section 230 will bring these platforms to heel.
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It is
Tech companies will have to moderate even more because they will fear that they will get sued in any content “incites” people
Small tech start ups would go bankrupt just trying to defend
How many people would have sued Twitter for allowing Trump to “incite” Jan 6th for example?
Anti Trust laws have been good for America. But now, they are not being enforced.
I am for this and have been for some time, but what is hilarious are the Leftists, who LOVED section 230 while they had control of Twitter, are suddenly (with the blazing speed of American Pacifist Communists in 1941 who changed in seconds from pacifist isolationists to passionate advocates for US entry into the war when Germany invaded Russia!) all for banishing it now that a non-Leftist will control it!
Whiplash!
They just need to declare certain tech software interactions to be publishers rather than platforms, since they are already censoring the content. No need to knock out section 230, just remove the obvious, blatant abuse of its provision.
Good idea, but nothing sponsored by Greene is going to become law in that Congress.
How does this play out for Free Republic, and the users here?
One potential problem I see with this approach is that there will still be some calls for censorship of some content, but the platforms themselves will not want to be responsible (since that would make them liable). So the natural evolution would probably be to have the government step in and tell the platforms who they can censor and who they can’t. It could result in a “do no post” list, like the “do not fly” list that the government provides to airlines.
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