Break Up Big Tech Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-8922
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Gabbard, Tulsi [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2020-12-09
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Latest action: action_date: 2020-12-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-12-09
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Break Up Big Tech Act of 2020</b></p> <p>This bill removes immunity protections from a provider of an interactive computer service (e.g., a social media company) that engages in specified activities, such as selling and displaying personalized and contextual advertising without a user's consent.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8922 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 9, 2020 Ms. Gabbard (for herself and Mr. Gosar ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to limit interactive computer service immunity.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Break Up Big Tech Act of 2020 . 2. Limitation on interactive computer service immunity Section 230(c) of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 230(c) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (3) Limitation After the date of the enactment of this paragraph, paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply to a provider of an interactive computer service with respect to a service if the provider after such date— (A) (i) sells advertising in which an advertisement is displayed to a user of such service based on— (I) personal traits of the user; (II) previous location information with respect to the user; (III) personal information from a profile about the user that is created for the purpose of selling advertisements; (IV) the previous online or offline behavior of the user; (V) the content of the website, online service, online application, or mobile application to which the user is connected; (VI) the location of the user, as of the time at which the advertising is directed to the user; or (VII) the search terms that the user applied to arrive at the website, service, or application to which the user is connected; and (ii) displays an advertisement in a manner described under clause (i) to a user who did not opt-in to having an advertisement displayed to such user in such a manner; (B) through such service, places items, or facilitates the placement of items, into the stream of commerce; (C) through such service, collects data for commercial purposes other than receiving from users of such service direct payment for the use of such service; or (D) uses a design or product that addicts, or whose purpose is to addict, users to such service. (4) Exception (A) In general Notwithstanding paragraph (1), an owner or operator of a social media service that displays user-generated content in an order other than chronological order, delays the display of such content relative to other content, or otherwise hinders the display of such content relative to other content, if for a reason other than to restrict access to or availability of material described in paragraph (2)(A) or to carry out the direction of the user that generated or requested such content or generated or requested restricted access to such content, shall be treated as a publisher or speaker of such content. (B) Definitions In this paragraph— (i) Social media service The term social media service means any interactive computer service provided over the Internet that connects users for the purpose of such users engaging in dialogue, sharing information, collaborating, or otherwise interacting. (ii) User-generated content The term user-generated content means content that is supplied on a social media service by an information content provider who is a user of such service. .