"With Section 230, tech companies get a sweetheart deal that no other industry enjoys: Complete exemption from traditional publisher liability in exchange for providing a forum free of political censorship," Hawley said at the time.
Hawley's bill did not emerge out of nowhere. In April, Cruz, in his capacity as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Judiciary's Subcommittee on the Constitution, convened a hearing on the topic of CDA Section 230 immunity. During the hearing, constitutional law expert Eugene Kontorovich offered testimony that seemed to preview the eventual filing of Hawley's bill:
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