Joe Lieberman Wants To End Section 230 Protection for Bloggers:
Patterico:
According to the blog McIntyre v Ohio, an anonymous blog devoted to promoting anonymous speech, Senator Joe Lieberman has proposed stripping blog hosts of the immunity they currently enjoy from liability for things their blog commenters say.[...]
If legislation like this ever actually passes, I’ll be shutting down comments.
Those who followed the recent smack down of a serial troll at Popehat will no doubt remember that Ken invoked section 230 as the reason I cannot be held responsible for stupid things said by my commenters. I have the finest comment section on the planet, but you can’t prevent idiots from walking in the door if you are going to have open comments. And there are always the Kilgore Trouts of the world, too: people who deliberately plant inflammatory or racist comments on sites to smear the blog proprietors.
Chilling speech of others by holding responsible the proprietors of blogs? Speech? Liberal Lieberman...
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