A tragic 2015 ISIS attack in Paris, a lawsuit in the US that now stands before the Supreme Court. A ruling could seriously change Section 230, and how we use the Internet forever!
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December 3, 2020
Seemingly everyone in Washington, DC wants to scrap Section 230, a snippet of the 1996 Communications Decency Act originally designed to help websites moderate online porn.
On Dec. 2, US president Donald Trump threatened to veto a normally bipartisan military funding bill unless Congress “completely terminated” Section 230. That stance is a rare point of agreement with his successor, president-elect Joe Biden, who told the New York Times that “Section 230 should be revoked, immediately.” In November, senators from both parties called for changes to the law while grilling the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook in a public hearing.
So what is everyone so riled up about?