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The former president will make his first major public appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, February 28.
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.
The dismantling of public education in Florida has been on a relentless march since former Gov. Jeb Bush hatched an ill-fated plan for an ever-expanding voucher program.
The Florida Supreme Court seemingly put an end to this in 2006, when it ruled that the state’s nascent Opportunity Scholarship Program, which funded private tuitions for just 730 former public-school students, was unconstitutional. It diverts public dollars into separate private systems parallel to and in competition with the free public schools that are the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida s children, the state’s high court opinion read.