The internet's death warrant: Congress looks to sunset Section 230

Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders will consider a major shift to internet policy. Committee Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) intend to “sunset” Section 230, the much maligned provision of the Communications Decency Act that makes everyone responsible for their own online speech. While this move was ostensibly made to motivate industry to write a replacement bill for legislators, this is an explanation of unprecedented bad faith.