119-hr908

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 908 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 908

 To amend 

section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 (commonly 
referred to as the Communications Decency Act) to stop censorship, and 
 for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 February 4, 2025

 Mr. Gosar (for himself, Ms. Boebert, Mr. Collins, Ms. Hageman, Mrs. 
 Miller of Illinois, Mr. Nehls, Mr. Norman, Mr. Tiffany, and Mr. Biggs 
 of Arizona) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce

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 A BILL

 To amend 

section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 (commonly 
referred to as the Communications Decency Act) to stop censorship, and 
 for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Stop the Censorship Act''.

SEC. 2. REVOCATION OF IMMUNITIES.

 

Section 230
            (c) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 230
            (c) ) 
is amended--

    (1) in the heading, by striking ``and Screening of 
 Offensive Material'' and inserting ``of Unlawful or 
 Objectionable Material''; and

    (2) in paragraph

    (2) --
        (A) in subparagraph
        (A) --
            (i) by striking ``material that the 
 provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, 
 lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, 
 harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether 
 or not such material is constitutionally 
 protected'' and inserting ``unlawful 
 material''; and
            (ii) by striking ``; or'' and inserting a 
 semicolon;
        (B) in subparagraph
        (B) , by striking ``paragraph

    (1) .'' and inserting ``subparagraph
        (A) ; or''; and
            (C) by adding at the end the following new 
 subparagraph:
 ``
            (C) any action taken to provide users with the 
 option to restrict access to any other material, 
 whether or not such material is constitutionally 
 protected.''.
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