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Pelosi Reportedly Wants To Strip Online Free Speech Protections From Trade Deal

[Reason.com] The new trade pact between the United States, Canada, and Mexico is a mixed bag, but one of its undeniably excellent components is a provision that effectively exports American protections for online free speech to other countries.

But Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D‐Calif.) is reportedly pushing to cut that language from the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) before Congress votes on the new trade deal. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier today that Pelosi is considering removing the liability protections for online platforms from the trade deal because including that language might make it more difficult for lawmakers to hack away at those same protections domestically.

"There are concerns in the House about enshrining the increasingly controversial...liability shield in our trade agreements, particularly at a time when Congress is considering whether changes need to be made in U.S. law," a spokesman for Pelosi told the Journal.

As I've written before, the USMCA‐as well as a new trade deal between the U.S. and Japan‐will include provisions shielding tech companies from liability for content, similar to the protections offered by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Though it's not a simple copy/paste, the trade deals effectively duplicate Section 230's promise that platforms will not be held liable for user-created content‐like videos posted to YouTube or comments made at the bottom of this article.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-08 02:27|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Well, you can't accuse her of lack of consistency.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-08 03:29|| 2019-12-08 03:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Crikey...I.m glad I read the second half of that heading.

Posted by Classer 2019-12-08 06:52|| 2019-12-08 06:52|| Front Page Top

#3 She'll change her mind as soon as those big checks from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Etc... clear.

Posted by CrazyFool 2019-12-08 09:25|| 2019-12-08 09:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Politicians should wear sponsor jackets so we know who owns them. Robin Williams.

Posted by Ebbineck Unemble4466 2019-12-08 16:43|| 2019-12-08 16:43|| Front Page Top

#5 From OpenSecrets.org:
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To Republicans: $379,496.......18%

Cycle: 2016
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To Democrats: $5,715,444.......62%
To Republicans: $2,068,073......23%

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Posted by Lex 2019-12-08 17:02|| 2019-12-08 17:02|| Front Page Top

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