Biden calls for changing Big Tech moderation rules. But not how.
President Biden made a familiar plea Wednesday: It’s time to overhaul the provision of law that basically protects any website, whether David dot edu or Goliath dot com, from civil legal liability for what its users post and it leaves up, or liability for what its users post and it takes down.
(There are exceptions. Click through the link, above, to see them.)
Biden’s fresh attack on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — whose supporters call it foundational to a free and open Internet — came in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece he used to invite Democrats and Republicans to take on Big Tech in a bipartisan way.
“We need Big Tech companies to take responsibility for the content they spread,” he said. “That’s why I’ve long said we must fundamentally reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects tech companies from legal responsibility for content posted on their sites.”
From a political perspective, the column can be understood as the president staking out the position, which will surely come in handy should…
