3.0.0 4828 2023-01-11T13:44:23Z 2023-01-11T13:44:23Z Senate S 2020-10-21 116 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-10-21T18:31:42Z Stop the Censorship Act of 2020 116 7808 HR 2020-07-29 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Related bill CRS Stop the Censorship Act 116 4027 HR 2019-07-26 Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. Related bill CRS 2020-10-21 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. IntroReferral 2020-10-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000594 Sen. Loeffler, Kelly [R-GA] Kelly Loeffler R GA N Science, Technology, Communications Science, Technology, Communications 00 2020-10-21 Introduced in Senate 2021-08-18T16:02:40Z Stop Suppressing Speech Act of 2020

This bill modifies a social media company's immunity from liability for screening and blocking offensive content on its platform.

Under current law, the immunity applies for action taken to restrict content that is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable. The bill eliminates immunity for restricting content that is otherwise objectionable and applies such immunity when a company restricts content that is unlawful or that promotes violence or terrorism.

Under current law, such immunity also applies to actions taken to enable or make available the technical means to restrict access to such content. The bill applies this immunity to actions taken that provide users with the option to restrict access to any material, regardless of whether such material is constitutionally protected.

]]> Stop Suppressing Speech Act of 2020 Display Title Stop Suppressing Speech Act of 2020 Short Title(s) as Introduced Stop Suppressing Speech Act of 2020 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 (commonly referred to as the "Communications Decency Act") to stop censorship, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s4828is/xml/BILLS-116s4828is.xml 2020-10-21 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.