How a Democrat plan to reform Section 230 could backfire
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Photo: Amy Klobuchar and Mark Warner were two sponsors of the bill, along with Hawaii Senator Maizie Hirono. Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call via AP Images. Article
Bobbie Johnson. MIT Technology Review – February 8, 2021.Experts agree new proposals are the most serious and substantial push to regulate social media yet. But many say they’re misguided and could backfire.
Over the last few years, Section 230 of the 1996 US Communications Decency Act has metamorphosed
from a little-known subset of regulations about the internet into a major rallying point for both the right and left. So when Democrats unveiled their attempt to overhaul the law on Friday, the technology world took notice.
There have been other suggestions for how to change Section 230, and many threats from President Trump while he was still in office—but the bill, announced on Friday by Senators Mark Warner, Mazie Hirono, and Amy Klobuchar, appears to be the most significant step yet toward genuinely reforming it. […]
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