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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2022, @12:26AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2022, @12:26AM (#1240889)

    There was a surge of some kind earlier this week in the collective unconscious. I'm guessing it's what you're reacting to. Woke me up in the middle of the night, then knocked me around for a couple days. I'm still learning about meditation, so I wasn't able to withstand it either.

    About your approach to anthropology.... Luke 10:25-37 MSG [biblegateway.com]:

    Just then a religion scholar stood up with a question to test Jesus. “Teacher, what do I need to do to get eternal life?”

    He answered, “What’s written in God’s Law? How do you interpret it?”

    He said, “That you love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and muscle and intelligence—and that you love your neighbor as well as you do yourself.”

    “Good answer!” said Jesus. “Do it and you’ll live.”

    Looking for a loophole, he asked, “And just how would you define ‘neighbor’?”

    Jesus answered by telling a story. “There was once a man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho. On the way he was attacked by robbers. They took his clothes, beat him up, and went off leaving him half-dead. Luckily, a priest was on his way down the same road, but when he saw him he angled across to the other side. Then a Levite religious man showed up; he also avoided the injured man.

    “A Samaritan traveling the road came on him. When he saw the man’s condition, his heart went out to him. He gave him first aid, disinfecting and bandaging his wounds. Then he lifted him onto his donkey, led him to an inn, and made him comfortable. In the morning he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take good care of him. If it costs any more, put it on my bill—I’ll pay you on my way back.’

    “What do you think? Which of the three became a neighbor to the man attacked by robbers?”

    “The one who treated him kindly,” the religion scholar responded.

    Jesus said, “Go and do the same.”