During a March hearing in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, lawmakers expressed concern over some of the worst content that?s online, including extremist content, falsehoods about COVID-19, and election disinformation.īut it?s people spreading just this type of content that often file lawsuits trying to force their content back online.

What lawmakers don?t notice is that a lot of the people posting that offensive junk get stopped, again and again, thanks to Section 230.

Many lawmakers on Capitol Hill keep coming back to the same solution: blaming Section 230. Tech platforms, especially the largest ones, have a problem?there?s a lot of offensive junk online.