Section 230 is a part of the Communication Decency Act, which has shielded Big Tech from accountability and censorship. U.S. lawmakers have been debating reforms to laws that govern Big Tech to allow for more transparency and fairness.
Despite Tesla founder Elon Musk’s attempts to buy Twitter and his pledge to honor the First Amendment, Rachel Bovard, senior tech columnist at The Federalist, said reforms still need to be made to laws, including Section 230, that govern the “massive behemoths that now control the entry points to our national discourse.”
“I think our public policy needs to respond to that. Part of that is Section 230, but I would even go further and suggest potentially common carriers should be considered, basically saying you have to admit all comers, and that’s something that’s under consideration in the Senate, as well as robust antitrust enforcement,” Bovard told the host of NTD’s Capitol Report, Steve Lance, during a recent interview.
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