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.

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Timeline

1. 12 January 2021

   Introduced

   Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 12 January 2021

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 12 January 2021

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 2 February 2021

   Referred

   Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

   Source: Committee

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Versions

• Introduced in House · 12 January 2021 · Official file

Documents

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 12 January 2021

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• Introduced in House (PDF)

  Introduced in House · EN · 12 January 2021

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 12 January 2021

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Sponsors

• Ted Budd · R · Sponsor
• Michael Waltz · R · Sponsor
• Lance Gooden · R · Sponsor
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