Political Quotes

“I am voting for this legislation because, on balance, I believe it will provide important legal recourse to victims of sex trafficking and will help hold accountable those websites that seek to exploit them. Protecting these victims should be our top priority. There have been concerns raised that this legislation may have an unintended--and harmful--impact on one of the key laws underpinning the free and open Internet. That key law is section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, CDA 230, which promotes free expression and innovation by protecting online platforms from a range of laws that might otherwise hold them unfairly accountable for everything their individual users may say and do online. This law defends free speech online and has encouraged innovations ranging from the earliest online bulletin board systems to today's platforms for social media and user- generated video. Without the protections of CDA 230, the internet would be a very different place today. Today's legislation amends CDA 230 by, among other things, prohibiting construing that law to limit Federal or State civil liability for conduct that involves ``knowingly assisting, supporting, or facilitating a violation of'' Federal child sex trafficking laws.…”