Why Section 230 is under attack
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🗓️ 28 September 2020
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Lindsay People's Editor-in-Chief of the Cut. |
| 0:04.8 | This month on our podcast in her shoes, we talked to designer Mara Hoffman. |
| 0:09.5 | Hoffman was just awarded CFDA's environmental sustainability award and also |
| 0:14.4 | released her first dress made entirely from recycled fabric. We hope you'll |
| 0:18.6 | join us for this month's series sponsored by evening. know it depends on a couple of sentences. It's section 230 subsection C of the |
| 0:37.5 | Communications Decency Act of 1996 and tech companies and internet freedom activists say, |
| 0:44.0 | without the rights prescribed in those sentences, |
| 0:47.0 | the platforms we use every day, |
| 0:49.0 | Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, |
| 0:51.0 | they wouldn't have existed. |
| 0:53.0 | That may sound extreme, but defenders of the law have had to make a strong argument for keeping it the way it is. |
| 1:00.0 | That's because over the last few years section 230 has come under attack from both sides of the aisle |
| 1:06.7 | Section 230 should be revoked immediately should be revoked number one for |
| 1:14.4 | Zuckerberg and other platforms. That's a pretty foundational law of the modern |
| 1:17.2 | That's right. |
| 1:18.4 | Exactly right. |
| 1:19.3 | And it should be revoked. |
| 1:22.3 | One of the things we may do, Bill, it's just removed or totally change 2.30. |
| 1:28.4 | What I think we can say is we're going to regulate it. |
| 1:31.1 | It's a provision and we're going to regulate it. It's a provision and we're going to regulate it. |
| 1:34.0 | Most recently attorney general William Barr sent his own proposal to Congress about |
| 1:39.7 | how to change the law and Sarah Morrison a reporter here at Rico is here to talk about it. And Sarah Morrison, a reporter here at RICO, is here to talk about it. |
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