SCOTUS Decision Stresses ‘Urgency’ for Congress to Revise Section 230, Says Rogers

Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court decisions declining to address the application of Section 230 in two terrorist-related cases (see 2305180049) emphasize "the urgency for Congress to enact needed reforms to Section 230,” said House Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., in a statement. The law “hasn’t been meaningfully updated since the Communications Decency Act was enacted, nearly three decades ago,” she said. “The online ecosystem has changed drastically since then, which is why we must update the law intended to hold these companies accountable.” But Michael De Dora, Access Now’s U.S. policy and advocacy manager, said the SCOTUS decisions in the two cases "preserve fundamental protections for freedom of expression online.” People in the U.S. and abroad “rely on social media platforms to exercise their rights, and it’s critical that democratic institutions do their job and protect the ability of such platforms to operate in a complex digital world,” he said.