Blumenthal Statement on Trump-Barr Section 230 Proposal

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), author of the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) and the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr’s proposal to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act:

“I’ve certainly been one of Congress’ loudest critics of Section 230, but I have no interest in being an agent of Bill Barr’s speech police. Whatever the criticisms I may have of the current law, using overblown claims of online “anti-conservative bias” to suppress free speech is absolutely unacceptable. My bipartisan efforts to narrow the scope of Section 230 have been carefully crafted to address Big Tech’s most egregious failures to protect survivors of human trafficking and children who have been horrifically abused, while including ironclad protections for free expression. I’m deeply concerned that President Trump and Attorney General Barr are exploiting Big Tech’s complicity in human misery to advance their own political agenda.”

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