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.

  • grue@lemmy.world
    67·
    3 months ago

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

    Remember that the Fediverse could survive instances having legal liability for user-posted content because each user could run his own instance.

    • CMahaff@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      3 months ago

      But surely one user posting illegal content would get blasted to all connected instances making everyone guilty.

      So… Worse. Much worse.

    • Supervisor194@lemmy.world
      25·
      3 months ago

      Yeah, I’m struggling to see the downside of this personally, which means there is no way in gods green hell it will happen.