Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) introduced a bill that ties $2,000-per-person Covid-19 relief checks to a repeal of Section 230, the provision of a 1996 law that protects social media platforms from liability for the way that they moderate third party content.
In doing so, McConnell has likely added a “poison pill” to the effort to increase the Covid-19 relief payments from the current $600.
(09.12.2020)
Under Section 230, the only party responsible for unlawful speech online is the person who said it, not the website where they posted it, the app they used to share it, or any other third party.
“Your failure to terminate the very dangerous national security risk of Section 230 will make our intelligence virtually impossible to conduct without everyone knowing what we are doing at every step,” Trump stated in his message to Congress.
“Section 230 facilitates the spread of foreign disinformation online, which is a serious threat to our national security and election integrity,” the president added. “It must be repealed.”
Der 4517 Seiten lange Haushaltstext befasst sich nicht nur mit dem Verteidigungsbudget, sondern umfasst zahlreiche weitere Maßnahmen rund um die nationale Sicherheit und die Streitkräfte.
Trump kritisierte unter anderem, dass mit dem umfassenden Gesetzespaket Online-Plattformen nicht stärker reglementiert würden.