[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 145 (Tuesday, August 10, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6348]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3369. Mr. HAGERTY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 14, setting forth the 
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 
2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
years 2023 through 2031; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the end of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO UPDATING 
                   THE COMMON CARRIER DOCTRINE TO APPLY TO BIG 
                   TECH PLATFORMS, REQUIRING BIG TECH PLATFORMS TO 
                   DISCLOSE THEIR CONTENT MODERATION PRACTICES TO 
                   USERS, AND REPEALING THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 
                   230 OF THE COMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1934 THAT 
                   PRECLUDE LIABILITY FOR BIG TECH PLATFORMS' OWN 
                   SPEECH AND POLITICAL CENSORSHIP OF AMERICANS.

       The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate 
     may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution, 
     and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or 
     more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between 
     the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to 
     updating the common carrier doctrine to apply to Big Tech 
     platforms, thereby requiring that those platforms provide 
     reasonable, non-discriminatory access to all Americans and 
     preventing those platforms from censoring Americans based on 
     their political speech, requiring Big Tech platforms to 
     disclose their content moderation practices to users, so that 
     American consumers can better understand and control the 
     information they receive, and repealing the provisions of 
     section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 230) 
     that have been interpreted to preclude liability for Big Tech 
     platforms' own speech and political censorship of Americans 
     by the amounts provided in such legislation for those 
     purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 
     the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2022 through 2026 or the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2022 through 2031.
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