Posted: | December 15, 2022 12:05 PM |
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From: | Senator Doug Mastriano and Sen. Scott E. Hutchinson |
To: | All Senate members |
Subject: | Combatting Big Tech Censorship |
In the near future, we plan to re-introduce legislation from last session (previously SB 604) that would further protect the political speech of Pennsylvanians from undue restriction and censorship on large social media platforms. Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter has revealed what many of us had already known. According to recently released internal documents, big tech executives coordinated weekly with the federal government to ban users and censor political speech which they deemed as “disinformation.” The new documents also revealed that Twitter used blacklists and “visibility filters” to interfere with user searches or “shadow-ban” individuals and prevent their tweets from trending. While the Federal government continues to debate modifying Section 230 (Communications Decency Act), a state law solution is the best solution to the on-going problem of social media censorship as our legislation would fall squarely within the “breach of contract” exemption of Section 230. Our legislation will do the following:
Please join us a co-sponsor to preserve freedom of political speech in the digital public sphere regardless of whether we agree with that speech or not. |