North Dakota's New Anti-230 Bill Would Let Nazis Sue You For Reporting Their Content To Twitter

North Dakota's New Anti-230 Bill Would Let Nazis Sue You For Reporting Their Content To Twitter

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210219/10393846276/north-dakotas-new-anti-230-bill-would-let-nazis-sue-you-reporting-their-content-to-twitter.shtml

Earlier this month, we wrote about how various Republicans in state legislatures were introducing blatantly unconstitutional bills that tried to do away with Section 230 and which all attempted to block the ability of websites to do any content moderation. Many of the bills were nearly identical (and may have come from Chris Sevier, the profoundly troubled individual, who somehow keeps convincing state legislators to introduce blatantly unconstitutional bills that attack speech online). One of the bills we mentioned was from North Dakota. Lawyer Akiva Cohen points out that the North Dakota bill has been updated... and (incredibly) made even more blatantly unconstitutional.

Most notably, the new amendment from Rep. Tom Kading, would not only gut Section 230, but would stop any website from doing any moderation of any user for their viewpoints. Any viewpoints. Anywhere (even off platform). And then... it adds in a private cause of action, saying that would allow a user to sue any website for moderation: