Congress fails to grapple with social-networking algorithms cjr.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cjr.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Reform Redux: Senate Could Bring Major Voting, Anti-Corruption Bill To Floor
Reform Redux: Senate Could Bring Major Voting, Anti-Corruption Bill To Floor
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House Democrats want to make sweeping changes to campaign finance and election law, and that begins with H.R. 1, the “For The People Act.”
It passed in the House but languished in the GOP-controlled Senate in 2019 this is round two.
Its return comes in the aftermath of a tumultuous 2020 presidential election, in which former President Donald J. Trump made numerous unsupported statements about voter manipulation.
Commentary: Will Duffield - Repealing Section 230 would limit Americans speech
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Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act prevents digital intermediaries from being treated as the “publisher or speaker” of their users’ speech and blocks litigation over platforms’ decisions to remove speech they deem violent, obscene or otherwise objectionable. Platforms are under no obligation to remove speech, with some exceptions, but cannot be required to carry speech either. The law applies universally to digital intermediaries; Facebook is not liable for its users’ speech, and the New York Times is not liable for its comments section. By properly placing responsibility for harmful or unlawful speech with the speaker, Section 230 maximizes the ability of companies to produce publishing tools.
Fri, Jan 29th 2021 9:33am
Mike Masnick
Steven Hill, the former policy director with the Center for Humane Technologies the non-profit that everyone seems to look to as some sort of knowledgeable source on anti-Big Tech talking points has come out with one of the most ridiculous op-eds regarding Section 230. And I say that as someone who seems to wade through a dozen or so terrible Section 230 op-eds every day. The title alone, should already make you nervous, but honestly this piece is so bad, so wrong, and so disconnected from reality, it completely undermines the Center for Humane Technology s credibility, even though this guy is no longer associated with them.
Section 230: A Look Ahead in a New Era cato.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cato.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.