February 17, 2021 10:20 PMLegal
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LOS ANGELES New legislation from three Senate Democrats would create the broadest exceptions to online speech protections yet proposed.
After more than a year of threats to Section 230, the “First Amendment of the Internet,” under the Donald Trump administration, Democrats in the United States Senate have introduced a new bill to “reform” the 25-year-old law in ways that, according to one top free speech lawyer, appears to be “a new idea to destroy Section 230.”
Speaking February 11 at the #interNEXT2021 conference, attorney Corey Siverstein said that the proposed law would “rewrite all of Section 230, and if you are in any way making money in relation to something being posted, you would have no ability to assert Section 230.”