Yves here. A lot of people on Twitter have been arguing for letting Mitch McConnell have his ask of a repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as a trade for increasing the relief checks in the current Covid “stimulus” package from $600 to $2000. This article helps explain why a guy like McConnell is so keen to kill Section 230.
By Jessica Corbett, staff writer at CommonDreams. Originally published at CommonDreams
Digital rights advocates and sex workers are among those speaking out against GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s attempt to tie House-approved $2,000 coronavirus relief direct payments to repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which critics are condemning as an “outrageous attack on internet freedom.”
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First Amendment News 281: Clearview face-recognition controversy continues privacy v. free speech
Clearview AI has hired Floyd Abrams, a top lawyer, to help fight claims that selling its data to law enforcement agencies violates privacy laws. . . . Litigation against the start-up “has the potential of leading to a major decision about the interrelationship between privacy claims and First Amendment defenses in the 21st century,” Mr. Abrams said in a phone interview. He said the underlying legal questions could one day reach the Supreme Court.
At the time of that post, Mr. Abrams told FAN that there “are ten cases in federal court, six in SDNY and four in the ND of Illinois. There is a case in the Vermont State Courts and one in the Illinois state courts by the ACLU.”