Welcome to the Tech Policy Podcast. I'm Ashken Kazarian. On today's show, we're going to talk about Section 230 again because that's a topic that's never going to stop being a hot topic in the next, I don't know, five years. We'll see.

Joining us is Diane Katz, Senior Research fellow in regulatory policy at the Heritage Foundation.

Diane, thank you for being here.

Thank you for having me.

So Section 230, we've definitely approached on the show before, and there are a gazillion articles, panels, events surrounding it.

But the paper that you recently released and we're going to link to is talking about something

that hasn't been discussed in detail and analyzed, at least I haven't seen anything,

you're approaching and analyzing Section 230 frivolence of a bill that was introduced by Senator Josh Hawley.

And the bill is called Ending Support for Internet Citizenship Act.

Can you tell us a little bit more about what the act implied?

What Holly has done is propose a bill that I don't think is really intended to be

legislated.

But what he is doing is trying to use this as a vehicle to punish those platforms that are

accused of being biased against conservatives.

And when I say that it's intended to be used to punish them,

it's kind of a backdoor regulatory regime because the Congress can't directly regulate the content moderation

practices of these platforms. And so Holly has made it his business to find a backdoor of sorts

to try to force platforms into treating conservative content supposedly

in a fair manner.

Right.

Let's premise this by saying, and I can say this, and this is Tech Freedom's official position,

that there is no empirical data that proves that the bias exists.

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