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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?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 29 2022, @06:33PM (5 children)
Common carrier is for the ISPs, not the media channels. Whoever gets this right will win the next election (well, in a rational world). But the propaganda is fierce.. the "disinformation" crusade is failing, the authorities are getting nervous
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday April 29 2022, @07:11PM (3 children)
Obama's FCC implementing Net Neutrality and the Republicans subsequently repealing it had about zero effect on the following election so far as I could tell.
I don't think "normal people" really care about this issue.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 29 2022, @07:24PM (2 children)
This is true, people don't care... And only congress can do it, not the president
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday April 29 2022, @07:27PM (1 child)
Congress already did it when they authorized the Federal Communications Commission to regulate interstate communications.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 29 2022, @11:31PM
No they didn't. Giving "authorization" is just passing the buck, so they can pass the blame. They have to pass net neutrality through legislation, so that the fickle FCC has to enforce it whether they like it or not.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 29 2022, @07:26PM
I would think whoever has a plan that breaks from the current Democrat one of war, inflation, and crime would win the election.