Yet over the past few years faced criticism. Many critics on the lift argue that social media giants enjoy special protection. They allow speech without worrying about consequences. Right havecs on the argued that these companies have gone too far in policing these devices or at least two far in policing conservative voices. Criticisms, wese have seen calls to reform this section, and it is these calls that we are going to discuss today, and i often use the phrase, an allstar panel. This time i mean it especially. Is thetely to my right author of the 2014 book hate crimes in cyberspace. Next to her is jim harper, and over on the and is the assistant for pfizer of Cyber Security law at the Naval Academy Cyber Science Department and author of the book the 26 words that anded the internet welcome all. Let me start with jeff. Sure, ore know for reasonably for sure, was the intent behind section 230 . Legislators feel the need to bring this into being . Reasons. Are two main the first was t
The 1996 Communications Decency act regarding the content users post on their platforms. The American Enterprise institute hosted the discussion. It is about an hour and a half. Good morning. Event youvec chosen to attend, watch online or view on cspan is should we reform section 230. Off with an interpretive reading of the 1996 commit case and and decency act, provider or user of an Interactive Service shall be treated as a publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider. For more than 20 years since the birth of the internet age as we know it, section 230 has provided websites from immunity for what their users post. The Electronic Frontier foundation describes the importance of section 230 this way, this legal and policy framework has allowed for youtube users to upload their own videos, amazon and yelp to offer countless user reviews, craigslist to host classified ads, and facebook and twitter to offer social networking to billions of intern
Shall be treated as a publisher or speaker of any information provided by a another information content provider. After more than 20 years, since the birth of the internet age as we know it, section 230 has provided websites immunity from what they are users post. Legal and policy framework has allowed for youtube users to upload their own videos, amazon and yelp to offer countless user reviews, and facebook and twitter to offer social networking to billions of internet users. Given the sheer size of user generated websites, it would be impossible and unfeasible are intermediaries to prevent this from cropping up on their sites. In short, section 230 is perhaps the most influential law to protect the kind of innovation that is of the internet to thrive since 1996. Yet over the past few years section 230 has faced criticism. Has faced heightened criticism from the left and the right. Many critics on the left argue that social media giants enjoy special protection. They allow speech with