Removing Section 230 Immunity for Official Accounts of Censoring Foreign Adversaries Act

3.0.0 941 2025-01-14T18:51:33Z 2025-01-14T18:51:33Z Senate S S 2023-03-22 118 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-03-22T19:53:43Z 2023-03-22 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. IntroReferral 2023-03-22 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress R000595 Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] Marco Rubio R FL N B001310 Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN] Mike Braun R IN 2023-03-22 True Science, Technology, Communications Science, Technology, Communications 2023-04-11T15:30:31Z

00 2023-03-22 Introduced in Senate 2024-02-02T16:07:15Z Removing Section 230 Immunity for Official Accounts of Censoring Foreign Adversaries Act This bill eliminates liability protection (sometimes referred to as Section 230 protection) for particular social media platforms related to content generated or shared by adversarial foreign governments that restrict access to or censor social media platforms. The Department of State must compile of list of such governments, and the list must include China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, and Venezuela. Under current law, a social media platform is generally not liable for content generated by third parties. Under this bill, if a social media platform knowingly hosts or distributes the content of a verified account controlled by or working on behalf of a listed government, the social media platform loses the liability protection for that content. (A verified account is one that displays a badge or other identifier that indicates the authenticity or validity of the account holder or has more than 500,000 followers.) The provisions of the bill apply to any domestically headquartered internet website, application, or platform that (1) is open to the public, including citizens from any country; (2) primarily enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, or images; and (3) has more than 50 million monthly users in the United States. The provisions do not apply to email services or services where content is preselected by the provider (i.e., not user generated) and any chat, comments, or interactive features depend on the preselected content.

Removing Section 230 Immunity for Official Accounts of Censoring Foreign Adversaries Act Display Title 45 Removing Section 230 Immunity for Official Accounts of Censoring Foreign Adversaries Act 2024-07-24T15:23:12Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Removing Section 230 Immunity for Official Accounts of Censoring Foreign Adversaries Act 2024-05-24T13:41:30Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to remove immunity protections from social media platforms which host accounts of censoring foreign adversaries, and for other purposes. 2024-02-06T09:08:27Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118s941is/xml/BILLS-118s941is.xml 2023-03-22 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.