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60 Minutes

1/3/2021: Section 230, The Case Against Curtis Flowers, Notes of Grace

60 Minutes

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🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On the first "60 Minutes" broadcast of 2021, Scott Pelley reports on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which protects internet platforms from liability for what users post on their sites. Sharyn Alfonsi talks to Curtis Flowers, who was tried six times for the same crime, and freed from death row with help from a podcast. The pandemic not only took his audiences away, its restrictions against gatherings also made millions of people lonely. As he tells Jon Wertheim, German pianist Igor Levit found a way to overcome the pandemic's effects on him and ease people's loneliness at the same time by streaming his world-renowned music on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

She knows about it.

0:07.0

Lies, deep state hoaxes and slander on social media are wrecking the lives of innocent people.

0:15.0

And yet, a federal law known as Section 230 helps it to happen.

0:20.0

One example? The myth that this Iraq war veteran is the person responsible for the coronavirus.

0:28.6

What has this meant to you?

0:30.6

Once my address was posted, that was it for me, because they put me in danger, my family.

0:36.6

It was like 60 or 70 death threats

0:38.8

over the span of, you know, four or five weeks.

0:43.0

This case is unprecedented in the history

0:45.8

of the American legal system.

0:47.7

Curtis Flowers, a black man from Mississippi,

0:50.5

was tried six times for the same crime

0:53.4

by the same prosecutor.

0:55.0

Mr. Flowers might still be on death row,

0:58.0

if it wasn't for an investigation led by these two women.

1:01.0

It's been more than three years since I got an email from a woman

1:04.0

telling me about a man named Curtis Flowers.

1:07.0

And they're relentless reporting.

1:09.0

... and their relentless reporting.

1:21.4

To ring in 2021 with the fanfare it deserves,

1:24.7

we bring you the story of pianist Igor Levitt,

1:27.5

a 33-year-old classical colossus.

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