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Ed Brzytwa

By sunsetting Section 230, Congress could be about to break the internet as we know it

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Ed Brzytwa is VP of international trade at the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).

Leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives are debating a proposal that would dramatically limit speech on the internet. Backed by two powerful house leaders, the proposed “Legislative Proposal to Sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act” would eliminate the protections granted to internet platform providers under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. This legislation would deal a critical blow to the fundamentally American tradition of free speech and the internet as we know and love it.

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