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Lawmakers Don't Grasp the Sacred Tech Law They Want to Gut

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Toward the tail end of a sparsely attended hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Republican congressman John Rutherford turned to the three witnesses before him---representatives of Facebook, Google, and Twitter---and asked a question that left them speechless. Congress, he explained, has already amended Section 230, the law that protects tech platforms from liability for what people post, by creating an exception for content related to sex trafficking.
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