Lindsey Graham's Latest Attack On Section 230: Reform It By 2023, Or We Take It Away

Lindsey Graham's Latest Attack On Section 230: Reform It By 2023, Or We Take It Away

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201215/22405545894/lindsey-grahams-latest-attack-section-230-reform-it-2023-we-take-it-away.shtml

I still am perplexed at why so many politicians hate Section 230. They've yet to provide any compelling reason at all. But, hate it, they do. Lindsey Graham, who has been at the forefront of senators wrongly attacking Section 230, has now decided to introduce yet another bill to attack Section 230. This comes just days after Graham tried to move forward on one of his many anti-230 bills, the Frankenstein's monster bill called the Online Content Policy Modernization Act, that simply grafted together two bad bills: the dangerous and unconstitutional copyright CASE Act with the Online Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity Act, that would basically force websites to host any hate speech.

The hearing was yet another of Lindsey Graham's flying circuses, with lots of grandstanding and misleading nonsense about 230, but after (as everyone knew going in) there wasn't enough agreement on just how to destroy Section 230, Graham withdrew the bill entirely: