EARN IT Act

EARN IT Act
Other short titles	Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2023
Long title	To establish a National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention, and for other purposes.
Announced in	the 118th United States Congress
Sponsored by	House: Ann Wagner ; Senate: Lindsey Graham
Number of co-sponsors	House: 29 ; Senate: 24
Codification
Acts affected	Communications Act of 1934; Communications Decency Act;
U.S.C. sections affected	Section 230 (47 U.S.C. § 230)
Agencies affected	United States Attorney General; Department of Homeland Security; Federal Communications Commission;
Legislative history
	Introduced in the Senate as S. 1207 by Lindsey Graham (R–SC) on April 19, 2023; Committee consideration by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary;

The EARN IT Act (S. 3538) is a bill first introduced in 2020 in the United States Congress. It aims to amend Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934, which allows operators of websites to remove user-posted content that they deem inappropriate, and provides them with immunity from civil lawsuits related to such posting. Section 230 is the only surviving portion of the Communications Decency Act, passed in 1996.

A number of events in the 2010s led lawmakers to question the legal freedom that website operators have, and among other legislation options, the EARN IT Act was proposed to alter Section 230's protections and put more responsibility on website operators. While it initially failed to pass in 2020, it was reintroduced in 2022 and for a third time in 2023.