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Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) introduced the Sunset Section 230 Act, which would repeal the tech liability shield within two years.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields companies from facing lawsuits over third-party user-generated content on their platforms.

It has become increasingly controversial in recent years, as Americans have sought to hold major tech firms accountable, particularly for online harms to children.

“Sunsetting Section 230 will force Big Tech to come to the table take ownership over the harms it has wrought,” Durbin said in a statement. “And if Big Tech doesn’t, this bill will open the courtroom to victims of its platforms. Parents have been begging Congress to step in, and it’s time we do so.”

Graham touted the “wide and deep bipartisan support” for their efforts.

They are joined on the bill by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Ashley Moody (R-Fla.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.).

https://archive.is/OKg0p (senate gov - Senate Judiciary Committee press release)

https://archive.is/3xxTW (house gov - Congresswoman Harriet Hageman press release)

https://archive.is/2PnqH (senate gov - Senator Dick Durbin, Democrat Senate whip, press release)

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6746 (Dick Durbin bill)

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3546 (Harriet Hageman bill)

History of Section 230 by Wired Magazine

https://archive.is/gtJ8b

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[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I grow more convinced all the time that there's a joint effort between tech corporations and governments to kill the open internet.

Repealing section 230 will kill social media in the US.

And AI search "assistants" will make it so that most people won't bother actually going to sites, which will destroy their ad revenue, which will put them out of business But conveniently enough, AI data centers will still have all of their content, which they can and will then put behind paywalls.

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 52 points 1 week ago

Just about every effort by Western governments can be described as a "joint effort" with corporations because they're just doing what the corporations tell them to do.

[–] redsteel@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 week ago

I'm suspecting the same. This 230 thing, the massive surge in datacenter construction of the last few years, the memory and storage disruption which is just beginning and growing (and already expected to have bad long-term effects on all personal computing devices), the sweeping i.d. verification bullshit around the world and in many U.S. states now, the unilateral and unaccountable influence that demons like Thiel and Yarvin seem to have on politics.

It all feels like a complex, orchestrated push toward total individual surveillance and removal of personal (thus private) computing device ownership and open communications.

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Big Tech loves to push for regulations only they can implement...