{"id":1929710,"date":"2023-05-12T11:40:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T15:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judiciary-committee-approves-bill-holding-big-tech-firms-accountable-for-child-sexual-abuse-material\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T11:43:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T15:43:16","slug":"judiciary-committee-approves-bill-holding-big-tech-firms-accountable-for-child-sexual-abuse-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judiciary-committee-approves-bill-holding-big-tech-firms-accountable-for-child-sexual-abuse-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill to Hold Big Tech Firms Accountable for Child Sexual Abuse Material Approved by Judiciary Committee."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudiciary-committee-approves-bill-holding-big-tech-firms-accountable-for-child-sexual-abuse-material%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1929710&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Senate Judiciary Committee Introduces Bill to Combat Child Sexual Abuse Material Online<\/h2>\n<p>The Senate Judiciary Committee has taken a step towards cracking down on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/second-minor-sues-twitter-over-sex-trafficking-on-social-media-site\/\" title=\"Second Minor Sues Twitter Over Sex Trafficking On Social Media Site\">child sexual abuse material<\/a> (CSAM) online and holding Big Tech firms accountable. The bill, introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), aims to combat the proliferation of CSAM online and grants more support to victims, while also bolstering accountability and transparency among online platforms.<\/p>\n<h3>What the Bill Entails<\/h3>\n<p>The bill would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mainstream-media-and-big-techs-seismic-shift-to-the-left\/\" title=\"Mainstream Media and Big Tech\u2019s Seismic Shift to the Left\">hold tech companies<\/a> more accountable for CSAM posted on their platforms by limiting their immunity from civil liability under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, instead making them liable for certain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-releases-public-safety-alert-over-rising-child-online-sextortion\/\" title=\"FBI Releases Public Safety Alert Over Rising Child Online \u2018Sextortion\u2019\">child exploitation offenses<\/a>. Under the legislation, it is deemed unlawful for a \u201cprovider of an interactive computer service\u201d as defined in Section 230, to knowingly host or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judiciary-committee-approves-bill-holding-big-tech-firms-accountable-for-child-sexual-abuse-material\/\" title=\"Bill to Hold Big Tech Firms Accountable for Child Sexual Abuse Material Approved by Judiciary Committee.\">store child pornography<\/a> or make child pornography available to any person on their platforms. Platforms that violate the legislation risk being fined up to $1 million although that could go up to $5 million if the offense \u201cinvolves a conscious or reckless risk of serious personal injury or an individual is harmed as a direct and proximate result of the violation,\u201d the legislation states.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also expands protections for child victims and witnesses in federal court; facilitates restitution for victims of child exploitation, human trafficking, sexual assault, and crimes of violence; and \u201cempowers victims\u201d by removing obstacles for them when it comes to them asking tech companies to remove CSAM from their platforms. Additionally, it creates an administrative penalty for companies that fail to comply with requests to take down such content.<\/p>\n<h3>Endorsements<\/h3>\n<p>The bill has received endorsements from a string of organizations including the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the National Children\u2019s Alliance, the Child Rescue Coalition, the National District Attorney\u2019s Association, the National Fraternal Order of Police, the Major Cities Chiefs Association, the National Criminal Justice Training Center, and the Youth Power Project, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Hawley noted that the Senate Judiciary Committee had adopted his Section 230 amendment to the bill prior to passing it. \u201cI\u2019ve just become convinced that maybe the only way to get the attention of these tech companies is to take away their immunity,\u201d he said in a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to introduce a bill aimed at\u00a0cracking down on child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online and holding Big Tech firms accountable. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) joined forces on May 11 to advance the legislation, which\u00a0aims to combat\u00a0the proliferation of CSAM online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":1929711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[8850,6599,18952,6716,4384,9513,4920,4151,8192,4859,4989],"class_list":["post-1929710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-approved","tag-abuse","tag-accountable","tag-child","tag-committee","tag-firms","tag-hold","tag-judiciary","tag-material","tag-sexual","tag-tech"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}