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Democrats want a truce with Section 230 supporters:
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which says apps and websites aren't legally liable for third-party content, has inspired a lot of overheated rhetoric in Congress. Republicans like Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) have successfully framed the rule as a "gift to Big Tech" that enables social media censorship. While Democrats have very different critiques, some have embraced a similar fire-and-brimstone tone with the bipartisan EARN IT Act. But a Senate subcommittee tried to reset that narrative today with a hearing for the Platform Accountability and Consumer Transparency (PACT) Act, a similarly bipartisan attempt at a more nuanced Section 230 amendment. While the hearing didn't address all of the PACT Act's very real flaws, it presented the bill as an option for Section 230 defenders who still want a say in potential reforms.
[...] Still, Section 230 has been at the forefront of US politics for years, and some kind of change looks increasingly likely. If that's true, then particularly after today's hearing, a revised version of the PACT Act looks like the clearest existing option to preserve important parts of the law without dismissing calls for reform. And hashing out those specifics may prove more important than focusing on the policy's most hyperbolic critics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2020, @07:58PM (2 children)
SoylentNews is a centralized platform and it will be destroyed eventually. Everyone will end up on decentralized platforms or give up on free speech. Killing Section 230 just speeds up the process.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday July 31 2020, @06:45PM (1 child)
Anything can be destroyed if we let it. Civilization is not an eternal state of existence. It can be destroyed quickly, too, if we let the totalitarians do it.
Those of us who cherish democracy and pluralistic society must defend them, if we want to keep them. An easy first step in doing that is to stand up to cancel culture bullies.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @11:29PM
Actually the easy first step is removing the fascist pricks from power. Then reverse citizen's united, remove the electoral college, and creste new legislation to prevent a future fascist from committing the same crimes as Trump.
Says a lot about you that you think curttailing freedom of speech is the answer. Even the ACLU defended the KKK, you're just another totalitarian asshole gaslighting people with your false sense of righteousness.