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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2022, @09:49PM (1 child)
Unhinged rant about Republicans, modded insightful
Well sourced factual refutation, modded troll
Yep, it's definitely the conservatives who are allergic to the truth, definitely
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2022, @10:32PM
Poor crazies taking rightwing news seriously. Do you realize Fox's own lawyers argued Fox programs are entertainment no one would take seriously? Also, when you repeatedly spam the site with unhinged religious racism why would anyone put effort into finding out if another rant is based in any semblance of reality.