Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene Introduces 21st Century FREE Speech Act

Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced the 21st Century FREE Speech Act (H.R.7613) on April 28, 2022. Greene is partnering with Sen Bill Hagerty (R-TN) to pass the bill in both the House and Senate. The 21st Century Free Speech Act centers on the following policy objectives:

• Providing Reasonable, Non-Discriminatory Access: Because the dominant technology platforms function as common carriers, Americans should have access to them on reasonable, non-discriminatory terms.
• Ensuring Consumer Transparency: The bill would require Big Tech to disclose its content moderation practices to users, so that American consumers understand and control the information they receive.
• Creating a Private Right of Action: Consumers can address violations of the previous two provisions via civil action.
• Abolishing Section 230: The bill would abolish Section 230 in favor of a liability protection framework that marries that Section’s original intent with the ensuing 25 years of enormous technological change. The bill would continue liability protection for third-party speech and urge family-friendly moderation, without providing limitless, special protection for tech platforms’ own speech and viewpoint censorship.