The US President has called to revoke #Section230, surprisingly this has bi-partisan support. VP Biden also wants to do away Section 230. This could impact enterprise communications too. #TwitterThreadz 1/11
#Section230 is confusing, thus highly misunderstood. It is about immunity and liability of online content 2/11
Before Google, Facebook, and Twitter existed, Congress passed the Comms Decency Act (96). Information sites were shifting from content creation to content hosting. The goal of #Section230 was to foster engagement, participation, and online free speech 3/11
This is the core of #Section230. Traditionally the publisher is responsible for its content, but social networks are not. It draws a distinction between a publisher and distributor. Sites that moderate, edit, or control content are publishers and can be held liable 4/11
#Section230 is about distributor v publisher protections and mostly applies to online forums and social networks. 230 does not apply to e2e messaging apps like Signal and Telegram 5/11
#Section230 is mostly viewed as a success - and enabled Facebook and Twitter to become what they are. Unfortunately,it has also unleashed tons of misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, hate speech, election interference, and more causing it to be requestioned 6/11
#Section230 has problems, but revoking it has huge ramifications. We need to evolve it, but how? Lots of ideas and suggestions exist. The proposed #EARNItBill is one take, and this one could impact enterprise communications. vox.com/recode/2020/5/… 7/11
There is a blurry line between enterprise messaging apps and social networks. Especially services such as @Zoom_US Chat and @CiscoCollab #Webex Teams that instantly federate with other firms. These comms are governed by corp policies, but are also protected under #Section230 8/11
The #EarnItBill threatens tech companies' ability to provide encrypted communications. As proposed, providers are only protected if they follow ‘best practices’ (yet to be defined) 9/11
Revoking #Section230 will end socials as we know them, #EarnItBill could disrupt trends in enterprise communications. Modifying 230 needs to be done with extreme caution. Perhaps a better approach is to evolve it using #GDPR as a model 11/11
