Congress Fails to Ask Tech CEOs the Hard Questions

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The Senate Commerce Committee met this week to question the heads of Facebook, Twitter, and Google about Section 230, the most important law protecting free speech online. Section 230 reflects the common-sense principle that legal liability for unlawful online speech should rest with the speaker, not the Internet services that make online speech possible. Section 230 further protects Internet companies’ ability to make speech moderation decisions by making it clear that platforms can make those decisions without inviting liability for the mistakes they will inevitably make.

Full story here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/congress-fails-ask-tech-ceos-hard-questions

 

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