Hawley introduces bill targeting Big Tech companies over political censorship concerns

introduced legislation Wednesday to give Americans the ability to sue major tech companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter if they engage in selective censorship of political speech., cosponsored by Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Mike Braun, R-Ind., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., would stop such companies from receiving immunity under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, unless they update their terms of service to promise to operate in good faith.

The bill would allow users to sue companies for breaching that contractual duty of good faith, and it would make them pay $5,000 plus legal fees to each user who prevails in a case against them. On a separate track -- reflecting renewed pressure on these companies out of Washington -- the Justice Department is recommending that lawmakers consider new legislation that would hold tech giants liable for content posted online. Any such legislation would roll back legal protections the online platforms have possessed for decades.

The DOJ proposed extensive changes to the law in question, Section 230, in a report Wednesday afternoon. The report does not call for repealing the statute entirely, but for rolling back immunity for platforms that facilitate criminal activity and for those that don't take action when notified of "specific criminal material or activity."

Hate speech is not protected. Ad removed not just for the red triangle symbol, it incorporated 2 other Nazi symbols (14/88). A triangle may be coincidence but combination of 3 nazi symbols in one ad is no longer coincidence. You may not like it, but there it is. The more you know

Maybe Hawley and his pals need to promote themselves on platforms that don’t allow disinformation? The companies, not the open platforms, can do the fact checking. Or does he not want facts checked? Now, Gtfo with the perpetual GOP victimhood.

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