{"id":2546,"date":"2026-03-19T00:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/congress-considers-blowing-up-internet-law\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T00:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:54:16","slug":"congress-considers-blowing-up-internet-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/congress-considers-blowing-up-internet-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress considers blowing up internet law"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Capitol Hill\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: The Verge, Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/STK481_STK432_CONGRESS_GOVERNMENT_CIVRGINIA_C.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Internet platforms&rsquo; liability shield Section 230 faced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/875300\/section-230-turns-30-social-media-addiction-cases-sunset\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another round of attack<\/a> at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday, this time with two distinct undercurrents complicating the conversation. One was an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/867830\/social-media-trials-product-liability-school-districts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unprecedented wave of ongoing legal challenges<\/a> to the law&rsquo;s scope, and the second was a heightened bipartisan concern over government censorship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u00ab\u00a0Section 230 is not one of the Ten Commandments,\u00a0\u00bb Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) said in his opening remarks. \u00ab\u00a0This idea that we can&rsquo;t touch it, otherwise internet freedom incinerates, is preposterous.\u00a0\u00bb Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have introduced a bill to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/634189\/section-230-repeal-graham-durbin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sunset Secti \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/897106\/section-230-reform-hearing-jawboning-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet platforms&rsquo; liability shield Section 230 faced another round of attack at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday, this [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}