28. Federal Communications Commission · Minor · Needs Congress
Limit Section 230 legislation to dominant, general-use platforms
Printed page 849 28. Federal Communications Commission
“It could focus legislation on dominant, general-use platforms rather than specialized ones. This could include excluding comment sections in online publications, specialized message boards, or communities within larger platforms that self-moderate.”
What has happened
- Not started
A drafting instruction for Section 230 legislation that Congress has not passed. No Section 230 bill advanced beyond referral in the 119th Congress: H.R. 6746 (Sunset To Reform Section 230 Act, referred 2025-12-16), S. 3546 (Sunset Section 230 Act, referred 2025-12-17) and H.R. 908 (Stop the Censorship Act, referred 2025-02-04) are the whole field, and none of them scopes its provisions to dominant general-use platforms. No public law in the window amends Section 230 — 104 public laws in the Corpus, none on communications platforms.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
One of four asks on printed page 849 (#2194, #2195, #2196, #2197) that describe how Congress should draft Section 230 reform rather than asking for an action on an object. Under playbook §3 they cannot rise above not started until legislation exists to carry the feature — the “advice rather than action” pattern the lower-tier plan flags as a vocabulary question for ticket 01. Recorded here so the reading is visible rather than assumed.
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- Scope of Section 230 reform legislation
- ID
- 2194