Mark Zuckerberg just told Congress to upend the internet
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook supports rewriting Section 230, and it's starting to lay out the changes it wants. That's the big takeaway from a nearly four-hour grilling of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The point was quickly lost in a pre-election political scuffle - but in the coming months, it'll be one of the most important things to watch.
Yesterday, the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a foundational internet law. The event was supposed to examine whether Section 230 protections - which protect web services and sites of all sizes - enable Big Tech Bad behavior." Witnesses came prepared with arguments against that premise. Dorsey cited...