Section 230 Linchpin law, which stipulates that online platforms have been controlled for decades. According to informationDemocrat Dick Durbin and Republican Lindsey Graham is planning to introduce a new bill that will specify the expiration date for the law and encourage other technology companies to present other options.
According to informationBill can recommend as fast as Monday 24 March and is expected to be supported by the Republican Party from the Republican Party. Josh Hawley and Marsha Blackburn and the Democrats Sheldon Whitehouse and Amy Klobuchar, which are ready to support the bill. It is also a version that changes the file. Proposal Made last year in the house by the Republican Party Cathy Rodgers and Democrat Frank Pallone Junior, so there are some fruit juices for this Parliament. The proposal will make the sunset effectively. Section 230, which will be set on January 1, 2027, which is a reduced date for the law that many technology companies rely on the duck's legal challenges.
The mechanical that Durbin and Graham seems to be trying to force the technology company to enter the table and talk about the 230 options by setting the time. “Come to help us write a complete replacement law or liberation.” The latter should be unbearable results for technology companies, as they will make them very much legal challenges.
Section 230 of the appropriate Communication Act while it is mainly standing for the company to have legal immunity from being a legal hero responsible for the content posted on their platform by users. It is often called “26 words that create internet” because it creates a frame for the content that the user created. But the company's legal protection has been burnt from both political parties for very different reasons.
Democrats came after Section 230, so that large technology companies are abandoned in their duties to delete dangerous content and express hatred by non -standard “good Samaritan” of honesty. Inspection from the left side Appeared during the COVID outbreak When the wrong information is rampant on the platform such as Facebook and the Democrats, some people want the company to do more to solve the problem. Republicans at the same time because Section 230 canceled because they believe Technology companies are very worried about deleting content. And think that their perspective has been “sensor” here. You can see the cracks began in the effort of these two parties.
There may be free space to assess the coverage under Section 230. After all, it was written in 1996 when the internet was at the beginning and the monopoly of the company, such as Meta or YouTube. It is difficult to imagine. For example, it may be worthwhile to ask, although the platform should not be responsible for what users randomly post. They should be responsible for promoting that content if it is illegal or dangerous?
But that made us return to the basic separation between the two sides in Section 230, depending on them that they want to go back. But their goals in doing so, in contrast to Diametrically If the parties agreed to cancel Section 230, but unable to make an agreement about what should happen next, you will end with the worst thing in the world. Frankly with this Congress and President, which seems to be the same for this course.