Section 230
The Trump Administration is invoking Section 230 protection clause for social platforms in trade deals
The goal of this seems to be to protect US tech companies’ business abroad from lawsuits.
Local authorities want to sue Facebook for Alienstock Area 51 event
The Lincoln County Sheriff expressed his frustration at the fact that people had already started arriving at the inn and that his county has to spend a quarter of a million dollars.
Facebook says it’s a publisher, invokes First Amendment rights to call Laura Loomer a “dangerous individual”
Facebook’s mind-boggling claim that its First Amendment rights allow it to ban users for exercising their own First Amendment rights – and that’s not even the only puzzling and contradictory point from the filing.
Microsoft’s Brad Smith says it’s time to break up big tech
He told NPR that the lack of more forceful government interference in the way tech companies do their business will eventually spell the downfall of democracy.
Senator Ron Wyden suggests “the possibility of a prison term” for Mark Zuckerberg’s lies
Facebook was recently fined $5 billion by the FTC for privacy violations – a fine that many saw as a slap on the wrist.
Now Beto O’Rourke wants to kill Section 230 – this time to counter “hate speech and gun violence”
Section 230 is what allowed the internet to thrive.
White House proposal to combat online censorship may allow FCC to remove Section 230 protections
Critics are concerned that the proposals may go too far and could be unconstitutional.
Rep. Paul Gosar introduces new bill to tackle online censorship
Gosar joins Senators Hawley and Cruz that are looking at ways to end online censorship.
Infowars attorney responds to Senator Blumenthal’s calls to censor Alex Jones from YouTube search
This comes after Senator Blumenthal pressed a Google representative on why the company wasn’t doing more to censor Jones and Infowars from YouTube search.
Project Veritas sends letters to Congress suggesting Google is “likely in violation of federal election law”
The letter cites examples from its recent investigative report which showed a Google executive talking about company plans to prevent the next “Trump situation.”
EFF urges Congress not to clamp down hard on deepfakes, to protect comedy and satire
Deepfakes have been in the news a lot recently. However as Congress moves to legislate against them, it’s important to be sure that uses for satire are hurt in the progress.
Facebook, Twitter, and Google to be grilled on “terror” content by House Homeland Security Committee
Congress thinks tech companies need to be doing more to tackle terrorism.