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Introduced Common Carrier Non-Discrimination Act

On 26 January 2022, the "Common Carrier Non-Discrimination Act" (Senate Bill 393) was introduced in the Georgia State Senate. The Bill proposes to amend Georgia Code Title 46, which governs public utilities and transportation, to classify open social media platforms with more than 20 million active monthly users in the United States as "public carriers" which provide a place for public debate as a "basic service". The Bill would thus prohibit big social media firms from restricting users and material on the grounds that it is discriminatory and violates free speech. The Bill further mandates common carriers to publicly provide information on their content management policies, such as moderation, removal, demonetisation, usage of algorithms for content (de-)promotion, as well as the number of incidents in which they took action against content.

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Scope

Policy Area
Content moderation
Policy Instrument
User speech right
Regulated Economic Activity
platform intermediary: user-generated content
Implementation Level
subnational
Government Branch
legislature
Government Body
parliament

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2022-01-26
under deliberation

On 26 January 2022, the "Common Carrier Non-Discrimination Act" (Senate Bill 393) was introduced in…

2022-03-08
under deliberation

On 8 March 2022, the Georgia State Senate passed the "Common Carrier Non-Discrimination Act" (Senat…

2022-04-04
rejected

On 4 April 2022, the Common Carrier Non-Discrimination Act (SB 393) was rejected after failing to p…