“To repeal section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934, and for other purposes.”
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This section repeals Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 230). (Section 230 immunizes providers and users of interactive computer services from civil liability for third-party content and provides good-faith protections for restricting access to objectionable material. Thus, such providers and users generally become subject to liability for that content and those activities upon enactment.) The section also makes conforming amendments to 10 other statutes—including the Communications Act of 1934, Trademark Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1127), titles 17, 18, 28, and 31 of the U.S. Code, Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 841), Webb-Kenyon Act (27 U.S.C. 122b), Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act of 2022, and National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act (47 U.S.C. 941)—to strike or update cross-references to Section 230, eliminate related exceptions (e.g., in 18 U.S.C. 2257 and 21 U.S.C. 841 for deletions consistent with Section 230(c)), strike subsections (e.g., 17 U.S.C. 1401(g) and 28 U.S.C. 4102(c)), and substitute alternative definitions such as "interactive computer service" from 47 U.S.C. 223(i) and, in the Trademark Act, "Internet" as the international computer network of both Federal and non-Federal interoperable packet switched data networks (from the meaning in 47 U.S.C. 230(f)(1)).