{"id":22856,"date":"2020-06-17T17:35:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T21:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=521d500fc16a50eededc5bc9027b3886"},"modified":"2020-06-17T17:35:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T21:35:22","slug":"justice-department-proposes-major-overhaul-of-sec-230-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=22856","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department proposes major overhaul of Sec. 230 protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1684531\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: The \"monitoring and reporting\" verbiage in there is _absolutely_ a not-very-subtle prohibition on end-to-end encryption.  \r\nThis proposal isn't going anywhere for political reasons, but can also go fuck itself for that.<\/div><div>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/barr-230-boulder-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Photoshopped image of Attorney General Bill Barr rolling a giant boulder labeled Section 230 up a mountain.\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/barr-230-boulder.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/author\/aurich-lawson\/\">Aurich Lawson \/ Getty Images<\/a>)<\/p>  <\/figure><div><a name=\"page-1\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Department of Justice today released a set of proposals calling for sweeping reform to the law that grants immunity to apps and websites for the content users post or share to them, following months of political rhetoric about the supposed suppression of conservative speech online.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal outlines recommended changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. \"The time is ripe to realign the scope of Section 230 with the realities of the modern internet,\" the DOJ wrote. \"We must ensure that the internet is both an open and safe space for our society.\"<\/p>\n<p>The report (<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6-16-20section230keytakeawaysrecommendations.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>) stems from a nearly year-long investigation into Big Tech that <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2019\/07\/justice-department-launches-antitrust-probe-into-big-tech\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">began in the department's Antitrust Division<\/a> last July. The DOJ said at the time that the probe would \"consider the widespread concerns that consumers, businesses, and entrepreneurs have expressed about search, social media, and some retail services online.\" The agency did not name names, but Amazon, Facebook, and Google were widely considered to be on the list.<\/p><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1684531#p3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read 15 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1684531&amp;comments=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a><\/p><div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=nnneAUeeaTc:_GpuEcW6sqA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?i=nnneAUeeaTc:_GpuEcW6sqA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=nnneAUeeaTc:_GpuEcW6sqA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?i=nnneAUeeaTc:_GpuEcW6sqA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=nnneAUeeaTc:_GpuEcW6sqA:qj6IDK7rITs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=nnneAUeeaTc:_GpuEcW6sqA:yIl2AUoC8zA\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson \/ Getty Images)<br \/>\nThe Department of Justice today released a set of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=22856\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}