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The Tech Industry is preparing for the coming battle over its 230 protections. Representatives Jim Jordan and Cathy McMorris Rodgers have announced they are drafting legislation designed to strip the major tech companies of their Section 230 protections found in the Communications Decency Act.
From The Daily Wire:
“The ‘discussion draft’ legislation, penned by McMorris Rodgers, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Jordan, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, exclusively obtained by Fox News, would prevent Big Tech companies from using Section 230 liability protections to ‘silence conservatives,’” according to Fox Business.
“The bill would amend Section 230 of the Communications Act to provide that immunity does not apply to ‘certain companies’ and would require internet platform companies to ‘implement and maintain reasonable and user-friendly appeals processes for decisions about content on the platforms,’” the outlet continued.
Section 230 stipulates that “no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”
McMorris Rodgers told Fox that “Big Tech can no longer be allowed to hide behind Section 230.” She said their drafted bill, which has yet to receive a formal introduction date, is a “solution to remove Big Tech altogether from Section 230 and put them under new obligations that will hold them more accountable for censoring Americans.”
The coming changes will drastically impact the Tech field so we predict a major uphill fight for conservatives in the near future.
Actions speaks louder than any ‘intended’ legislation or ‘conservative’ posturing…what’s really needed is a “reformation” of the GOP❗️
The Democrats/Leftists/Liberals/Socialists will never allow anything like this to go through it would hurt the feelings of their media social media flunkies. Does anyone really think that the Democrats/Leftists/Liberals/Socialist want the American People to have Freedom of Speech and to not be subject to the whims of facebook, instagram and twitter?
I’ll believe it when I see it! Republicans have become too cowardly!
High time. We conservatives should be allowed to opine on FB, Instagram etc.