Chairman Cruz: Is It Time to Reform Section 230?

Within my lifetime, the Internet has impacted nearly every aspect of the world and our daily lives—especially how we communicate. It was only a short time ago that speech and newsworthiness was controlled by a handful of TV networks and newspaper publishers. And if you held a position they didn’t want to print or wasn’t consistent with their political views, it didn’t get said. The Internet changed that, allowing anyone to bypass these gatekeepers and shape public opinion with their own views. The Internet also created a new way to communicate anonymously and at greater scale, through blogs, message boards, and comment sections ... But thirty years later, it seems Big Tech is the new gatekeeper, the new speech police. If you disagree with a particular view, Big Tech doesn’t answer it with more speech. They do not persuade. They do not debate. They simply make it disappear and silence you. That should scare everyone.