Limiting Online Platform Immunity: Increased Accountability for Paid and Harmful Content.
This bill restricts the legal immunity (Section 230) currently protecting large online platforms, increasing their accountability for content, especially paid advertisements or material they actively create. Citizens gain new avenues to pursue claims related to discrimination, harassment, consumer fraud, and wrongful death, as platforms can no longer rely on the previous legal shield. The changes also make it easier to obtain court orders requiring the removal of content likely to cause irreparable harm.
Key points
Platforms lose legal protection for content they were paid to publish (e.g., ads) or content they created or funded themselves.
Victims of discrimination, harassment, consumer harms, and wrongful death can sue platforms without the limitations imposed by the existing law.
Courts can order platforms to remove material likely to cause irreparable harm, and platforms must now prove they are not the publisher of the content.
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