... Big Tech is already suppressing the Right. Twitter banned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the George Republican, for “spreading disinformation.” Also recently banned was mRNA vaccine pioneer Robert Malone. As the 2022 midterms approach, expect more. The Left’s end game, though, is abolishing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Happily, GOP leaders don’t seem to favor the idea. It’s a bad one that would cement Leftist control of the speech online....
Section 230: No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
Leftist politicians and their spear carriers in the Regime Media are pushing bans, censorship, and deplatforming with the zeal of Star Chamber judges....
For the radical Left and Democrat Party, that means deep-sixing Section 230, which protects social media platforms from defamation and liability claims that publishers face. They receive that protection because they are supposed to be neutral. Anyone can post anything. They’re supposed to be public bulletin boards.
Of course, we all know they are no such thing. So why get rid of something that Big Tech doesn’t follow anyway? Because Leftists think Section 230 allows “hate speech” and “misinformation” without consequences. Democrats want it so social media platforms become liable for all their published content. And that would lead to more censorship....
Fortunately, Republicans are now more serious about the threat than two or three years ago.... But unlike Democrats, most Republicans don’t want to abolish Section 230 outright.
That’s a good thing, as Gab.com’s founder Andrew Torba, has explained. The move would kill renegade start-ups who value free speech and permit vigorous debate.
Section 230 only protects Big Tech from what
users say on their platforms; it does not protect users for what
they say, nor does it protect what
Big Tech itself says. That can only help start-ups who, again, could be wiped out by
Leftist lawfare....
Another idea for reigning in Big Tech: designating the gargantuan companies as common carriers, as Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas suggested in an opinion last spring [
Justice Thomas Gives Congress Advice on Social Media Regulation, by Abby Lemert and Klaudia Jaźwińska, Lawfare, April 12, 2021]....
Joe Biden knows exactly what more censorship will do: cripple political opposition to remaking the United States of America with openly Totalitarian public policies and, of course, The Great Replacement. That’s why Republicans must protect the liability protections that allow free speech platforms to exist and thrive,...
