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The bill strengthens platform liability to reduce online harms and expand victims' remedies, but it raises costs and legal risks that may suppress startups, increase consumer costs, and encourage over-censorship online.
Children and middle-class families will face reduced exposure to online abuse, trafficking, child exploitation, and clearly illegal posts because platforms will have stronger liability incentives to adopt stricter moderation, privacy, and safety practices.
Middle-class families and small-business owners gain greater ability to seek civil remedies for online defamation, fraud, and other harms because intermediaries would no longer have broad §230 immunities.
State governments and tech workers may see increased transparency and federal oversight of internet infrastructure and domain policies through NTIA-led statutory updates and new reporting/oversight mechanisms.
Small platforms and startups will face higher legal risk and compliance costs, discouraging innovation and raising barriers to entry for new entrants and smaller firms.
Middle-class families and youth may experience reduced online expression and less content variety because major platforms could over-censor broadly to avoid liability.
Users and small businesses may face higher prices, loss of free services, or stricter account requirements as platforms pass increased moderation and legal costs onto customers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Repeals Section 230 and updates federal statutes and definitions to remove Section 230 references, effective two years after enactment.
Official title: Repeal section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934.
Introduced December 17, 2025 by Lindsey O. Graham · Last progress December 17, 2025
This bill repeals 47 U.S.C. § 230 (Section 230 of the Communications Act), removing the federal statutory immunity that currently shields online platforms and other interactive computer service providers from being treated as the publisher or speaker of third‑party content. It also makes multiple conforming amendments across federal law to remove or replace references to Section 230 and to adjust related definitions and cross‑references. The statutory changes are substantive (not merely technical) and take effect two years after enactment; they revise definitions in several statutes, strike or replace cross‑references in multiple titles of the U.S. Code, and alter certain NTIA‑related domain provisions, among other edits. The repeal shifts legal exposure for online platforms and will affect litigation risk, content moderation practices, and related regulatory interpretation across many federal laws.