Here’s the latest proposed amendment to Section 230

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Reclaim The Net

This isn't expected to get anywhere but it's worth hearing about.

Didi Rankovic

June 13 2021

Another attempt is under way in the US Congress to amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which has recently been heavily criticized with the allegation it’s a tool used by major tech platforms to censor their voices at will and with impunity.

The new bill that seeks to introduce changes to strip Big Tech of immunity, currently letting it both allow and censor content without legal repercussions, is known as Protect Speech Act and was introduced by Congressman Jim Jordan and a number of other Republican legislators on Friday.

We obtained a copy of the amendment for you here.

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It specifies that immunity from lawsuits will not apply when social media platforms and others censor content or prevent users from accessing it – unless this action is taken in good faith “based on an objectively reasonable belief” that the material in question is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, promoting terrorism or violent extremism, harassing, promoting self-harm, unlawful, or that it violates the terms of service.

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