Section 230
MembersWhy most free speech social media platforms don’t support repealing Section 230
? Platform owners have spoken out.
Senate confirms Big Tech critic Nate Simington to the FCC
The appointment will shape Big Tech regulation for the next five years.
Snowden: The modern internet became “less for the individual” and all about centralized control and censorship
The decentralized internet lost out to corporate power.
Biden’s new tech advisor wants to hold Big Tech accountable for hosting “misinformation”
Reed wants to strip back Big Tech protections to make them liable for the content they host. Proposed censorship.
Biden campaign calls for more post-election Facebook censorship
Campaign staffers want Facebook to stop allegations of voter fraud.
Big Tech CEOs’ push for “transparency” during Section 230 hearing highlights their arbitrary censorship
Even when the selective censorship is on full display, users have little recourse.
YouTubers sue Google after platform censors “conspiracy theories”
YouTubers want an emergency injunction against the deletion of their accounts.
Discord starts shutting down communities for “misinformation”
Conversations within closed, non-public groups are no longer safe from censorship.
Senator Josh Hawley’s bill against Big Tech censorship blocked by Democrats
The bill would have allowed users to sue Big Tech companies if they were deemed to be censoring on political grounds.
Trump encourages states attorneys general to start their own investigations into Big Tech censorship
Investigations could soon be announced.
The EU wants to give itself greater powers to punish tech companies that don’t censor enough
The EU wants to score tech companies on how promptly they take down users’ posts.