DOJ Proposes Legislation Seeking to Roll Back Legal Protections for Tech Companies

 

Jack Dorsey of Twiller

Big tech "platforms" benefited enormously from protections and designation (as platforms), which they have patently and persistently exploited with impunity until now. They have exploited their users profiting from surveillance and collection of personal data for profit. And they foolishly in their pride and hubris, presumed to become become censors, blocking free expression in preference for patent political bias.

Observers of these blatant violations knew that these megalopolies would see their improper special advantages denied and removed. Their power to act as monopolies will be next.

They have been involved in what I call their own Crossfire Hurricane gamble. A gamble that counts on a corrupt administration to win a presidential election. This announcement today is the first small step. The avalanche pebble has begun to roll down the hill for big tech censors (frank)

Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook 

"The Justice Department (DOJ) has submitted a proposal to Congress on Wednesday that seeks to curtail liability protections for internet companies to force them to manage and moderate content on their platforms responsibly and fairly.

"The proposal calls on Congress to update Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which largely provides immunity for online platforms from liability for content posted by their users, although they can be held liable for content that violates anti-sex trafficking or intellectual property laws.

"The law currently allows companies to block or screen content “in good faith” if they consider it “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable.” But in recent years, the legal protections afforded have been used to shield online platforms that engage in “censoring” or “political conduct,”

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