the core issue is not one of over or under moderation, but rather one of a faulty and an unsafe product design.
Josh Hawley
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Josh David Hawley is an American attorney and politician currently serving as the junior United States senator from Missouri, a position he has held since January 3, 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Hawley previously served as the Attorney General of Missouri from 2017 to 2019. He is known for his focus on issues such as technology regulation, free speech, and conservative social policies. Hawley gained national attention for his opposition to big tech companies and his advocacy for policies aimed at supporting American workers and families.
the technology that is now an inextricable part of our lives be designed in a way that is safe.
I'm a father of three children, all of them very small. I worry about this every day--my oldest is 10--as they get old enough to want to be on the internet.
It really is time to give victims their day in court. What could be more American than that?
Section 230, as we know it today, is not only outmoded, it's not only outdated, it's really completely unrecognizable from what Congress wrote in the 1990s.
Beijing has said that it intends to double China's nuclear power capacity by 2035.
I believe in markets. I'm skeptical of massive regulatory agencies, but one of the reasons I'm skeptical is I just see them get captured time, after time, after time.
Section 230, as we know it today, is not only outmoded, it's not only outdated, it's really completely unrecognizable from what Congress wrote in the 1990s.
I want this fixed for these school kids, and until we get some answers here, and frankly, some justice for these school kids, I am going to hold every nomination at the Department of Energy.
I think the best way you protect the little guy and give him the power or her the power to take on the big guy, is allow them into court, let them get discovery, let them hire a tort lawyer, let them bring their suits.
I hope that this Subcommittee and the Committee as a whole... will see real reform for America's families and children.
It really is time to give victims their day in court. What could be more American than that?
Surely we can agree that there should be--whether it's the standard you propose Professor Franks, which I think is pretty close actually to traditional distributor liability.
The Section 230, as we know it today, has been almost completely rewritten by courts and other advocates, usually at the behest of Big Tech.
Does anything in the text of Section 230 as it was originally written, suggest, in your view, that platforms ought to get this really form of super immunity for promoting, taking other people's content, hosting it, promoting it, and in…
I think that's actually much closer to what Section 230, when Congress wrote it, was meant to be.
If Congress acts on this issue, what would be your recommendations for the best way to address this problem, from a policy legislative perspective?
the right of Americans to obtain redress if they've been harmed by knowing misconduct has been eviscerated.
The Section 230, as we know it today, has been almost completely rewritten by courts and other advocates, usually at the behest of Big Tech.
I'm a father of three children, all of them very small. I worry about this every day--my oldest is 10--as they get old enough to want to be on the internet.
It really is time to give victims their day in court. What could be more American than that?
I hope that this Subcommittee and the Committee as a whole will prove in this Congress that real bipartisan action with real teeth is possible.
the terrorist attacks were so rooted in what was going on in the internet that when there was a rash of terrorist attacks in the state of Israel, they were known as the Facebook intifada.





