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The Plan To Sunset Section 230 Is About A Rogue Congress Taking The Internet Hostage If It Doesn’t Get Its Way
If Congress doesn’t get Google and Meta to agree to Section 230 reforms, it’s going to destroy the rest of the open internet, while Google and Meta will be just fine. If that sounds stupidly counte…
But, based on that one terribly misleading hearing, the top Republican (Cathy McMorris Rodgers) and Democrat (Frank Pallone) on the committee created this bill to sunset the law, along with a nearly facts-free op-ed in the Wall Street Journal making a bunch of blatantly false claims about Section 230. Publishing and broadcasting tools were suddenly free or nearly so, offering a microphone to millions of Americans who wouldn’t have the power, clout or fame to be featured on NBC’s “Meet the Press” or in Time magazine. According to the bill’s text, if Congress can’t agree on a successor to Section 230 by Dec. 31, 2025, websites from Yahoo and Etsy to the local restaurant hosting customer reviews will become liable for every syllable posted on the site by a user or troll.
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