Twitter CEO says Online Liability Reform would lead to increased harmful content

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has told US Senate that a proposal to reform a law providing online liability protection could lead to “more harmful content” by limiting ability of platform to remove abusive materials. His comments were an excerpt from his prepared testimony that is to be given at a Senate hearing on October 28. Dorsey, along with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sunder Pichai, is scheduled to testify before Senate Commerce Committee on a law kwn as Section 230, Pledge Times reported.

What is section 230?

As per Section 230, " provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as publisher or speaker of any information provided by ar information content provider" This implies that “online intermediaries” or social media platforms, that host or republish speech are “protected against a range of laws that might orwise be used to hold m legally responsible for what ors say and do,” Electronic Frontier Foundation explained.

While defenders of law have argued that it allowed online services to flourish without fear of law, many ors pointed out that Section 230 was too lenient and enables “proliferation of abusive content” and incitements to violence. Adding to that, Republicans have reiterated that it social media platforms were using law to suppress conservatives.

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Meanwhile, Dorsey said that currently Section 230 allowed platforms to remove online ‘hate speech’ and or inappropriate content. However, he added that abolishing foundation of section 230 could destroy medium of conversation on internet. “Only large and funded techlogy companies will be saved from this,” he said.

law made headlines after both Twitter and Facebook restricted users to share link of  New York Post’s article which accused Democratic electoral candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden of using his far’s influence for gains. While, Twitter prevented people from sharing link to article, warning that people that it could be “potentially unsafe”, Facebook took steps to restrict access to article.

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Im: AP