Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and a host of other House conservatives introduced legislation on Wednesday that would block big tech giants from censoring lawful political speech on the Internet.
Reps. Doug Collins (R-GA), Ralph Norman (R-SC), Lance Gooden (R-TX), Steve King (R-IA), Jim Banks (R-IN), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Ted Yoho (R-FL), Tom Tiffany (R-WI), Ron Wright (R-TX), and Gosar introduced the Stop the Censorship Act of 2020, which would revoke big tech companies’ Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act legal immunity if the tech platform were to remove lawful speech on their platform.
The House Republicans’ legislation aligns with recommendations proposed by the Department of Justice.
Gosar said in a statement on Wednesday that Congress can no longer allow big tech companies to deem what is and what is not allowable free speech on the Internet. Gosar said:
Online platforms should not have special immunity to censor competition and lawful political speech. The broad and undue immunity for content and user removal granted by Section 230 must be reined in by Congress. We cannot continue to subsidize, deputize, or blackmail Silicon Valley to decide what is or isn’t an allowable conversation. Stop the Censorship Act empowers users and limits Big Tech to the same rights and liabilities as everyone else.
Gosar introduced the legislation as Breitbart News’s Allum Bokhari reported on Tuesday that Internet search giant Google, which controls 88 percent of the Internet search market, had purged Breitbart News from its search results.
The House Judiciary Committee also plans to hold an antitrust hearing on Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google’s dominance on the Internet on Wednesday.
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What about speech about health, masks and vaxx? Are they lumping everything as political speech?