Democrats’ proposed changes to Section 230 will shut down conservative outlets

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Democrats’ proposed changes to Section 230 will shut down conservative outlets

Jazz Shaw Posted at 1:01 pm on March 27, 2021

While Congress was grilling some Big Tech CEOs this week, Democratic leaders were busy in the background, working on proposals to change how Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is written. Sadly, there are plenty of people on both sides of the ideological divide who have become so angered by the actions of Twitter and Facebook, along with the other social media heavyweights, that support for this sort of action seems to be growing. But what House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) and his cronies are planning to do won’t stop some of the worst abuses of Jack Dorsey and company. Instead, it will open the door to unofficial censorship of anyone with insufficiently woke views and could lead to endless lawsuits, not just against the social media platforms, but all publishers of online content. (Axios)

    The question isn’t whether to regulate tech companies, but how, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) tells Axios’ Margaret Harding McGill.

    Why it matters: Democrats, empowered in Congress and enraged by misinformation over vaccines and the election, agree it’s time to legislate on tech policy, including updating the key law that shields them from liability from user-generated content. The path to passing a bill is a little clearer, and there have been signs that the largest tech platforms are ready to embrace some changes.

    Driving the news: Pallone said he wants to take aim at online platforms’ financial incentives to amplify misinformation and extreme content.

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We need to be keeping two things in mind here. First, the Communications Decency Act doesn’t only apply to social media platforms. In fact, the original legislation was written long before those platforms were even a twinkle in the eyes of their creators. Those rules apply to any web outlet where news and opinions are published and, more to the point, any site that allows comments from the public.

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[christian]

If you're not gonna bi-partisan with the democrats and give them everything they want every time they want it, your Constitutional freedom rights are just gonna have to be canceled.  Socialist Communists like Putin and Xi don't go that far, but we do now have Czars in our government and God much thrown out like so much trash.  What were people thinking?  Utopian ship of fools headed for the promised land ?

[Cyber Liberty]

If you're not gonna bi-partisan with the democrats and give them everything they want every time they want it, your Constitutional freedom rights are just gonna have to be canceled.  Socialist Communists like Putin and Xi don't go that far, but we do now have Czars in our government and God much thrown out like so much trash.  What were people thinking?  Utopian ship of fools headed for the promised land ?

The cloud has a silver lining:  We got rid of the hated Donald Trump.

[sneakypete]

Has ANYONE in the mainstream media asked Zuckenberg what he thinks about this?

That's a reply I would love to hear.

[roamer_1]

The cloud has a silver lining:  We got rid of the hated Donald Trump.

That's foolish.
This was coming, one way or the other, be it now or four more years.
What should stir your ire is how little was done to stop it when so-called Republicans were in power. That's when you had the hammer. Why wasn't it swung?

[Cyber Liberty]

That's foolish.
This was coming, one way or the other, be it now or four more years.
Was should stir your ire is how little was done to stop it when so-called Republicans were in power. That's when you had the hammer. Why wasn't it swung?

It does piss me off, but that's backwards-looking. 

Besides, I forgot this: 

[Sled Dog]

100 years ago, the national socialists shut down opposing thought by burning opposition newspapers.

National socialists haven't changed a bit...Pelosi is even almost old enough to have been an original member of the NSDAP...but the technology has.

But once they get secure in their control of the news, they'll resort to the tried and true Zyklon-B to take care of their enemies.