“Social media services moderate content to reduce the presence of hate speech, scams, and spam,”Carl Szabo, Vice President and General Counsel at the trade organization NetChoice, said in a statement.
“Yang’s proposal to amend Section 230 would likely increase the amount of hate speech and terrorist content online.”It’s possible that Yang misunderstands the very core of the law. “We must address once and for all the publisher vs. platform grey area that tech companies have lived in for years,” he writes. But that dichotomy is a fiction.
“Yang incorrectly claims a ‘publisher vs. platform grey area.’ Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act does not categorize online services,”Szabo says.
“Section 230 enables services that host user-created content to remove content without assuming liability.”