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The GOP is lying to you, they want to repeal Section 230 because you don’t agree with them

As expected and in typical McConnell fashion — McConnell is now gunning to either kill the measure all together or will attempt to get a measure of his own passed if Democrats want more help sent to Americans. According to the Verge, McConnell has now proposed a new piece of legislation that as this title states would only bring the stimulus efforts to the floor if it included a Section 230 repeal. Not just a partial repeat at that, but a full repeal of the law taking direct aim at tech companies that have long enjoyed those protections.

But let’s keep it frank here. A repeal of Section 230 of that law likely would lead to dramatic moderation at some of the world’s most popular tech hubs and blogs. For example, Twitter likely would ramp up their moderation of posts and tweets including those of the GOP in an effort to prevent being sued over something someone posted. So in essence, the GOP is ready to kill their own social-media presence if it means everybody else’s gets killed right behind them.

A REMINDER:

Section 230 is not some form of a special legal protection afforded to internet companies. It serves much of the modern internet. Without it — most of the websites in existence today would be required to dramatically ramp up their moderation efforts like you’ve never seen before. Some of you are preaching about internet freedoms and censorship — but that is exactly what the GOP is pushing. Censorship using the threat of suing someone because repealing such would give them the ability to sue a platform over something you posted that they may not agree with.

Section 230 is not at all what Republicans are trying to make it out to be. It is simply a measure of the Communications Decency Act that protects platforms from what its users post because the content did not actually originate on the platform but instead came from a specific person or entity. What Republicans should be gunning for is tighter specifications around the ability to prosecute those who post harassing things; illegal things, or references to child pornography (which are rampant on certain networks right now.)

What it is, however, is that the GOP wants to strip others of their right to have different opinions than those of the ruling GOP class.

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