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Greene Offers Bill to Abolish Section 230

posted by Fnord666 on Friday April 29 2022, @04:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the government-should-govern-moderation-policies dept.

DannyB writes:

Greene offers bill to abolish Section 230

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.

Republicans have long claimed that social media platforms have an anti-conservative bias, pointing to tweets that have been taken down and the removal of entire feeds from networks.

[....] Titled the 21st Century FREE Speech Act, Greene's measure will serve as the House version of a Senate bill sponsored by Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.).

To combat the alleged bias against conservatives, it would prevent online communications platforms from exerting "undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, class of persons, political or religious group or affiliation, or locality" and would provide consumers a mechanism to sue for violations.

Should any platform be liable for someone else's speech? Even if they engage in moderation?

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 29 2022, @04:13PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 29 2022, @04:13PM (#1240732)

    Watch what you say or she'll set the gazpacho police on you!

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Friday April 29 2022, @04:32PM (3 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday April 29 2022, @04:32PM (#1240741) Journal

    Oh no! The Commander and Chief ARE coming for me!

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 29 2022, @05:40PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 29 2022, @05:40PM (#1240763)

      COVFEFE.

      Certificate Of Vaccination.

      For Everyone.

      For Ever.

      Imagine being one of these people who got an injection that Trump made happen by waving the safeguards and giving legal immunity to multi-billion dollar corporations. And not just once, but some got it 5 times in a little over a year.

      • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday April 29 2022, @05:44PM

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday April 29 2022, @05:44PM (#1240765) Journal

        There is one item in that list that actually happened.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 29 2022, @05:50PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 29 2022, @05:50PM (#1240767)

        Cobalt Vanadium Iron alloys. They are used for their high magnetic flux density to clean up 5g on an ionic level.

  • (Score: 1) by liar on Friday April 29 2022, @06:55PM

    by liar (17039) on Friday April 29 2022, @06:55PM (#1240781)

    Then you'll *really* be in the soup...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 29 2022, @07:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 29 2022, @07:20PM (#1240790)

    The Spanish ministry for gastronomy *should* regulate cold soup; Gazpacho is one of their quintessential national dishes.

    Well kinda informally they do, chefs in Spain are precious about their Michelin Stars.

  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Saturday April 30 2022, @03:11AM

    by Thexalon (636) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 30 2022, @03:11AM (#1240912)

    Now you're making Arnold J Rimmer seem sad and pathetic. Again.

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  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Saturday April 30 2022, @09:14AM

    by driverless (4770) on Saturday April 30 2022, @09:14AM (#1240970)

    Unless she gets taken out first by the Jewish space lasers.