Summary
Lawmakers are once again pushing to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields online platforms from legal liability for user-generated content.
Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) are collaborating on a bipartisan bill to sunset the law in two years.
Repealing Section 230 aims to force Congress to renegotiate platform liability standards.
The proposal reflects growing frustration over tech giants’ power and content moderation practices, but past efforts have faced political gridlock despite bipartisan support.
If you completely repeal section 230, this would ultimately make moderating Nazi content on a Lemmy instance illegal, since if something illegal doesn’t get taken down but others do said Fediverse servers would be looked at as a publisher not a platform. So by “getting your revenge on Facebook and X” in this way you are only downgrading your selves in the process.