Andrew Yang and Tulsi Gabbard are calling for sweeping changes to the online industry’s liability protections
to “amend the Communications Decency Act to reflect the reality of the 21st century — that large tech companies are using tools to act as publishers without any of the responsibility.” A provision within that law, Section 230, shields digital services from lawsuits over both user-generated content and their efforts to take down harmful material.
The newly revealed plans arrive days after another 2020 contender, former Vice President Joe Biden, said for the first time that “we should be considering taking away” the protections afforded under Section 230, a statute he helped pass into law as a senator in the 1990s that has been widely credited with spurring the growth of the internet economy.
Fellow 2020 candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar and former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, who recently ended his bid for the White House, both suggested reconsidering the protections earlier this year. Yang’s proposal is part of a broader plan for regulating technology firms unveiled Thursday.
Yang also calls for new laws on tech that “preempt state regulations, when possible, to create one national framework,”
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