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| Mark Zuckerberg suggests a full review of Section 230 |
Ahead of the hearing, the House of Representatives released opening speeches to Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai, and the chief executives of Facebook, Twitter and Google provided false information on congressional committees on Thursday.
Zuckerberg has proposed a proposed amendment to Section 230, which is part of the Communications Etiquette Act of 1996, to protect internet companies from liability for user activity.
He reiterated Facebook's support for modernizing the Internet's rules, and expressed hope that Congress would undertake deliberate reforms in Section 230.
Zuckerberg noted that the Internet has undergone drastic changes in the past 25 years, while the principles of governance are still in effect, and suggested that Section 230 should take full advantage of the intended changes to make it more suitable for human use.
Zuckerberg said: "We believe that Congress should consider certain types of illegal content to protect the liability of the platform as an intermediary, provided that the company has the ability to apply best practices to combat the spread of such content."
He added: In addition to immunity, the platform should also be required to provide evidence that it has a system in place to identify and remove illegal content. If some pieces of content cannot be disclosed, the platform should not be held responsible for the current broadcasting. The platforms contain billions of posts every day, but they must have adequate systems in place to deal with illegal content.
Zuckerberg suggested that best practices should not be linked to unrelated issues (such as encryption or changes in data protection) and that these issues should be discussed in depth in their own right.
He said, "These appropriate systems do not have to meet the" one size fits all "standard, but they can be proportional to the size of the platform and can be implemented by external agencies.
If Congress approves Mark Zuckerberg's proposal, Facebook won't have to make many changes to its current monitoring practices.
However, this could solve many people's concerns about Section 230 as the senator proposed several bills and reform proposals.
US President Joe Biden called for the complete abolition of Article 230 in the election campaign