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Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act

Introduced: January 12, 2021 Introduced by: Budd, Ted Republican · North Carolina See on congress.gov
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Feb 2, 2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Jan 12, 2021
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Jan 12, 2021
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act

This bill requires an edge provider of an interactive computer service (e.g., social media website) to adopt and maintain written terms of service binding itself to a contractual duty of good faith in order to qualify for the statutory protection against being treated as the publisher of information distributed through the service by a third party.

An edge provider is a provider of an interactive computer service through which information published by other content providers is distributed and that has more than (1) $1.5 billion in annual global revenue, and (2) 30 million monthly users in the United States or 300 million monthly users worldwide.

What's happening now February 2, 2021

Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

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Gooden, Lance
Texas · Jan 12, 2021
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 277: Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-277/
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"H.R. 277: Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-277/.
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H.R. 277, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-277/.
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