Section 230 barely rates a mention in Senate’s hasty pre-election flogging of tech CEOs
https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/28/section-230-barely-rates-a-mention-in-senates-hasty-pre-election-flogging-of-tech-ceos/
Today’s Senate hearing on immensely important legal protections for online platforms quickly proved to be little more than an excuse for Senators to accuse the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google of partisan interference with next week’s election. The actual law being considered for revision was mentioned only a handful of times in the nearly four-hour hearing, the balance being taken up by partisan bickering and, ironically, misinformation.
The hearing, assembled and convened with naked haste in order to get ahead of the election, was dominated by Republican bullying and bloviating and Democratic expressions of distaste. Section 230, a law which is under serious and justified consideration for revision, was barely a footnote.