[Advocacy Advisors] Attorney Generals propose changes to Section 230

[Luis Villa]

Hi, all-

As some of you certainly know, Section 230 of the Communications Decency
Act[1] is a key legal tool that we use to protect speech on Wikipedia.

A group of state-level attorney generals have recently asked the US federal
government to weaken Sec. 230. A couple of organizations have weighed in on
the proposal:

CDT:
https://www.cdt.org/blogs/andrew-mcdiarmid/2507section-230-under-attack-state-ags%E2%80%99-proposal-threatens-internet-we-know-i

EFF:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/state-ags-threaten-gut-cda-230-speech-protections

And a more academic take from Eric Goldman:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2287622&download=yes

This is fairly core to what we do, obviously, so Stephen and I are
monitoring it closely. Your involvement (questions, proposals for action,
proposals for inaction, etc.) is (as always!) welcome.

Luis

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communications_Decency_Act

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Wikimedia Foundation
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