Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act
Summary
Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act This bill requires an edge provider of an interactive computer service (e.g., social media website) to adopt and maintain written terms of service binding itself to a contractual duty of good faith in order to qualify for the statutory protection against being treated as the publisher of information distributed through the service by a third party. An edge provider is a provider of an interactive computer service through which information published by other content providers is distributed and that has more than (1) $1.5 billion in annual global revenue, and (2) 30 million monthly users in the United States or 300 million monthly users worldwide.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jan 12, 2021
Last action Feb 2, 2021
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Total actions
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Committee
2
Feb 2, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
lower
Jan 12, 2021
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
lower
Jan 12, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Ted Budd
RRepublican
Co
Lance Gooden
RRepublican
Co
Michael Waltz
RRepublican
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