Hill Briefing: What Policymakers Need to Know About the First Amendment and Section 230

Date

Time

Location

Senate Finance Committee room

219 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510-6200

Register

More Info

Graphic for a hill briefing with EFF, entitled "What Policymakers Need to Know About the First Amendment and Section 230."

What Policymakers Need to Know About the First Amendment and Section 230

Date: March 8, 2023
Time: 2:30pm – 4pm EST / 11:30am to 1:00pm PST
Location: Senate Finance Committee room, 219 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510-6200
(no virtual option available)

The Supreme Court is about to hear two cases – Twitter v. Taamneh, and Gonzalez v. Google – that could dramatically affect users’ speech rights online, and we invite you to a panel discussing what legislators need to know about these cases, the history of Section 230, and the First Amendment’s protections for online speech.

Please join the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) for a panel discussion on these two cases before the court, along with remarks from Sen. Ron Wyden, one of the original architects of Section 230.

The panel will include:

  • Aaron Mackey, Senior Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Jessica Ashooh, Director of Policy, Reddit
  • Emma Llanso, Director of the Free Expression Project, Center for Democracy and Technology

We hope you will be able to attend this timely and important briefing.

** Please register using this link by May 2 at 6pm. For more information, please contact EFF’s India McKinney at [email protected].

CDT’s amicus briefs in these cases: