The politicization of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), a piece of legislation that prevents online service providers such as Big Tech platforms from being held legally liable for most of the user generated content that’s posted to their platforms, has resulted in both Republicans and Democrats publicly threatening this immunity.
On the Republican side, several proposed bills and President Trump’s recent Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship have threatened to change or remove this immunity if Big Tech platforms are deemed to selectively censor certain viewpoints.
On the Democratic side, presumptive 2020 presidential nominee Joe Biden has threatened to revoke Section 230 because social media companies such as Facebook are “propagating falsehoods they know to be false.”
And during today's appearance at the International Forum on Social Media Election Disinformation hosted by The George Washington University Institute for Data, Democracy, & Politics, Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono once again echoed these demands for censorship, said Facebook needs to do more to stamp out “misinformation” in private groups, and threatened this Section 230 immunity.
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