Social media censorship bill in preparation in North Dakota

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But under the section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which is a federal law, it is almost impossible to take this new bill into account. So unless we remove Section 230, which surely won’t happen, the demand of Republican lawmakers in North Dakota won’t go any further.

Censorship of Facebook and Twitter would prevent users from expressing themselves freely

Basically, it was following Trump’s ban on Facebook and Twitter that this bill was born. Trump had as a reminder urged people to tackle the Chapters. And according to Tom Kading, the main representative of this bill, the reaction of Facebook and Twitter is unjustifiable, especially since it is a president.

This bill therefore suggests that following censorship, social networks have prevented their users from expressing themselves. Facebook and Twitter will therefore have to pay damages to their users, since they deprive them of their rights.

Kading also clarified that this bill will be a safeguard that will only benefit those who reside in North Dakota.

This bill is a lost cause

But the point is that this bill contradicts of the Federal Communications Decency Act, particularly in section 230.

So, ” no provider or user of an interactive IT service should be treated as the publisher or author of information from another provider of information content ” (…), Exonerating the civil liability of social platforms for “ any action taken willfully and in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers obscene, obscene, lascivious, disgusting, excessively violent, harassing or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is protected by the Constitution ”.

Akiva Cohen, a lawyer, shared a tweet stating that as long as Section 230 is there, this bill will never be considered. The latter also underlined the “stupidity” of this approach.

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