nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20201031-115451-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 201031s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20201031-115451-0 doi eng 342 23 Godwin, Mike Author aut On Publishers, Carriers, and Bookstores A Monolog for Our Political Season about the Political and Legislative Background of Section 230 Godwin, Mike Verfassungsblog 2020-10-31 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The next American election is just days away, so you’d think that most American politicians would be focusing on campaigning either for their own election (or re-election) or for their colleagues and allies who are running now to attain or retain elective office. But not this week. Weirdly enough, the United States Senate took time off from campaigning—even though the official election date is next Tuesday, and millions of American voters are voting in advance of the election or have already voted—to host a hearing whose nominal purpose was to discuss whether a formerly obscure but now hotly disputed statute known as “Section 230,” which plays a central role in limiting legal liability for internet services, needs to be updated. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Facebook Media Regulation Section 230 Social Media Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/on-publishers-carriers-and-bookstores/ raw object