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DOJ’s Deputy AG Rosen Asks If Big Tech Should Get Full Immunity for ‘Removing Lawful Speech’

Posted on 11 March 2020

The Department of Justice has asked an important question about Section 230: Is the rule that helped shape the internet as we know it due for an update? Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen gave a speech about possible changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act at the Free State Foundation's 12th Annual Telecom Policy Conference on March 10, 2020. “After 25 years, it seems that the time has come for Congress to assess what changes to Section 230 are now needed,” he proclaimed. Rosen noted that Big Tech platforms have been given “carte blanche to...