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The terrible, awful, no good, horrible plans to regulate the internet keep coming faster and furiouser these days. So, it's worth remembering a time back when Congress passed one of the worst laws about the internet: the Communications Decency Act. Yes, these days we talk about the CDA more reverently, but that's only because we're… ....
Twenty five years ago today, then President Bill Clinton signed the 1996 Telecommunications Act into law. There was a lot in it, including the Communications Decency Act. And, buried within the Communications Decency Act was a part that was originally the Internet Freedom and Family Empowerment Act, written by then Representatives Chris Cox and Ron Wyden, but which is now generally known as Section 230. The rest of the CDA was tossed out as unconstitutional in an important early judicial review of internet regulations, but Section 230 survived. That means we ve now made it 25 years with Section 230, and its key 26 words helping to protect and enable an open internet. For reasons that don t fully make sense, Section 230 is now under assault from both major political parties (though often for diametrically opposed reasons!). ....
President Donald Trump vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act on December 23 in part because lawmakers did not include a measure to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. ....