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As a number of tech conglomerates including industry Goliaths such as Google LLC. alongside Facebook Inc., had been setting their eyes on an end-to-end encryption of their users messages and data, US congress has been set to introduce a bill over the coming weeks that would prevent the tech tycoons from offering end-to-end encryption as it looks to limit the scale of "children sexually abusive content" distributions through such platforms, at least two people familiar with the matter had unveiled late on Friday, the 21st of February 2020, on condition of anonymity as the sources were not authorized to speak publicly over the issue.

In point of fact, latest move of the US cabinet in effect would dilute impacts of a law called section 230 that had been safeguarding the tech tycoons from lawsuits related to distribution of potentially harmful contents as under the Section 230 law, certain online platforms could not be held liable for the contents posted, published delivered through their online platforms.

Concomitantly, the bill, which would be proposed by the Chair of Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham alongside a Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, would be duelling against the tech tycoons to hold them liable for the contents published and posted on their online platforms and to make them subjects to state prosecution alongside civil lawsuits, said the sources.

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US legislation to fend off end-to-end encryption of Facebook, Google and others - Financial World