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Bill Barr threatens Big Tech's prized legal shield, Section 230 US Code (Barr going after big tech?)

 
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Bill Barr threatens Big Tech's prized legal shield, Section 230 US Code (Barr going after big tech?)
Attorney General William Barr is threatening the legal shield that prevents internet companies such as Facebook and Google from facing lawsuits over the extreme, exploitative and sometimes violent posts that circulate on their powerful platforms.

At a Department of Justice (DOJ) workshop devoted to the issue Wednesday, Barr warned that the largest technology firms have hidden behind the 1996 statute to avoid responsibility for "selling illegal and faulty products, connecting terrorists [and] facilitating child sexual exploitation."

Barr's comments bolstered the DOJ's escalating battle against Big Tech. Law enforcement officials have accused the tech titans of obstructing criminal investigations and amassing too much power over the past decade. The DOJ is currently investing the largest tech firms for antitrust concerns – and Barr said the department's interest in Section 230 grew out of that probe.

"Online services ... have evoked [legal] immunity even where they solicited or encouraged unlawful conduct, shared in illegal proceeds or helped perpetrators hide from law enforcement," Barr said, placing blame both on the law — Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — as well as the courts, which have interpreted it broadly in the more than 20 years since it was passed.


The conference comes amid a broader effort by the Trump administration and Congress to take aim at Section 230, a controversial statute that has been lauded for empowering the modern internet and blamed for enabling the overwhelming amount of harmful content that can be found online.

The law shields tech companies, including Facebook as well as smaller companies such as Yelp, from assuming legal liability for content posted by their users. It also empowers the companies to make their own decisions about which pieces of content to take down — for instance, the law protects YouTube from facing legal repercussions for taking down a terrorist recruitment video.




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"Online services ... have evoked immunity even where they solicited or encouraged unlawful conduct, shared in illegal proceeds or helped perpetrators hide from law enforcement”

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Re: Bill Barr threatens Big Tech's prized legal shield, Section 230 US Code (Barr going after big tech?)
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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78482667


I don't know if it is good or bad, sounds like he is going after free speech
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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78482667


I don't know if it is good or bad, sounds like he is going after free speech
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It's bad. Barr is not a good person and definitely going after free speech.



My post from other thread, same topic:

I imagine a lot of complaints to a brand new federal department office building with thousands of workers verifying claims and mailing out cease and desist orders for post by X user on X date at X webpage for hate speech, etc., and every website hiring new managers to monitor all content 24/7, and lots more problems and places shutting down.

Section 230 is good. Trump seems to want revenge on Twitter, I don't see any other reason for repealing 230.

The problem seems to be that there is no liability anywhere. Anyone can say anything and it's up to a website to determine how it will regulate, monitor and enforce its own rules.

Twitter does not seem to censor or add disclaimers to every user therefore it is targeting it's users who it does and there should be a punishment upon Twitter for it because they cannot do it unbiasedly. In essence their censoring and disclaimers can right now be considered hate speech and Trump need not seek to repeal section 230 and just make a huge mess.
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