The push has bipartisan support. Again.

Summary

Lawmakers are once again pushing to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields online platforms from legal liability for user-generated content.

Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) are collaborating on a bipartisan bill to sunset the law in two years.

Repealing Section 230 aims to force Congress to renegotiate platform liability standards.

The proposal reflects growing frustration over tech giants’ power and content moderation practices, but past efforts have faced political gridlock despite bipartisan support.

  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    30 days ago

    All the major centralized/corporate social networks are Nazi bars now anyway; nothing of value will be lost if they can no longer exist.

    Uh… Bluesky? And in the first place it won’t be the big platforms losing here, but the small ones. What section 230 does is make it so you don’t need a first amendment argument to prevent the courts from controlling what you do with your internet platform, because a first amendment lawsuit is very expensive to run compared to a section 230 lawsuit.

    because each user could run his own instance.

    They can, but that will push many people away.