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McConnell introduces bill tying $2K stimulus checks to Section 230 repeal:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has thrown a wrench into Congressional approval of an increase in government stimulus relief checks from $600 to $2,000. The House voted overwhelmingly on Monday to increase the payments, as President Trump had advocated for. Instead of voting on the House bill, however, McConnell blocked it and instead introduced a new bill tying higher stimulus payments to Section 230's full repeal, according to Verge, which obtained a copy of the bill's text.
It's a tangled web, but the move is tied to Trump's veto of the National Defense Authorization Act, which authorizes $740 billion in defense spending for the upcoming government fiscal year. "No one has worked harder, or approved more money for the military, than I have," Trump said in a statement about the veto, claiming falsely that the military "was totally depleted" when he took office in 2017. "Your failure to terminate the very dangerous national security risk of Section 230 will make our intelligence virtually impossible to conduct without everyone knowing what we are doing at every step."
Section 230 has nothing to do with military intelligence; it's a 1996 law designed to protect Internet platforms. At its highest level, the short snippet of law basically does two things. First, it grants Internet service providers, including online platforms, broad immunity from being held legally liable for content third-party users share. Second, it grants those same services legal immunity from the decisions they make around content moderation—no matter how much or how little they choose to do.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday January 05 2021, @07:08PM (4 children)
There is no monopoly in content. The real problem is service. We permit too many restrictions and too little competition
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2021, @08:05PM (3 children)
Ah there is the real fusty. Libertarian (small r) that takes ideological purity to a stupidly new level.
Permit restrictions? Explain how a service should not be allowed to enact rules? Do you agree with the spam and karma moderation here on SN? Should a kid-friendy service NOT be allowed to censor curse words?
Too little competition? Is someone stopping Parler from existing? Did Voat [voat.co] shut down due to the monopoly powers of Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter? Did the government somehow ruin their business model? Did their hosting provider refuse service based on their shitty user base? Are you being prohibited from running your own site? Please explain, how are "we" permitting too little competition (how does that phrasing even make sense?)
Might want to get your water tested.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday January 05 2021, @09:40PM (2 children)
You're just talking your usual partisan gibberish. As already stated, we should demand a dumb pipe from the service providers, by law if need be, so that we can compete. You have no business meddling with content provision.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2021, @10:30PM (1 child)
You HAVE dumb pipes you moron! What you are asking for is "dumb service" because you're a lazy bum that demands others do the heavy lifting for you. Running a website in 2021 is not difficult you babboon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2021, @11:02PM
Heh, learn to read, then make your entrance. Ad libbing is not your forte