Government efforts to ‘fix’ social media bias overlooks the destruction of our discourse

Oct. 15, Jared Schroeder, associate professor of Journalism specializing in Free Press/Free Speech at SMU Dallas, for a piece warning about the damage Big-Tech is inflicting upon our democratic discourse — and making a handsome profit in the bargain. Published in The Hill under the heading Government efforts to ‘fix’ social media bias overlooks the destruction of our discourse: https://bit.ly/3j03LBV

Enough with the bad CDA 230 takes and revisions. Just stop. Each week we seem to see another attempt to revise, do away with, or chip away at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law that protects online platforms, such as Facebook and YouTube, from liability for how people use their services.

Nearly every attack is aimed at the wrong problem – limiting political bias and censorship on the part of big-tech firms.

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