Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act, giving the powerful a dangerous new route to manipulate platforms into removing lawful speech that they simply don’t like. President Trump himself has said that he would use the law to censor his critics. The bill passed the Senate in February, and it now heads to the president’s desk.
Isn’t this what the DMCA is for?
I think you mean the communications decency act? Most of that has been found to be unconstitutional as will likely be the fate of this bill…
Not with the MAGA Supreme Court on the job.
Yeah but the DMCA was vaguely reasonable. This is meant to be weaponized.
No it wasn’t. It too was MEANT to be weaponized from day one. The difference is that almost all of the people in control of both parties and all mainstream media were in favor, so it got a false veneer of reasonability in coverage.
The DMCA is just as bad as SOPA and PIPA, which was always the intent from the powerful industry groups lobbying for all three bills and the politicians they own.