AOC Act

Abandoning Online Censorship Act or the AOC Act

This bill repeals Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934, which protects a provider or user of an interactive computer service (e.g., social media company) from liability for screening or blocking objectionable content.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 874 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 874

   To repeal 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 5, 2021

 Mr. Gohmert introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To repeal 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 ``Abandoning Online Censorship Act'' 
or the ``AOC Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF SECTION 230.

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repealed.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