New Delhi, Dec. 13 -- US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on Friday said that he was moving to file a bipartisan bill to repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Section 230, passed in 1996 as part of the Telecommunications Act, has become the centre of a intense political debate in the recent years.

"At long last, we are proceeding to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal. We've been working on that for a long time and I think it's time now to make the decision. People in this committee who want to join the bipartisan bill can join and people who don't want to, they don't have to," the Democrat Senator said.

"But waiting any longer, I don't think serves any useful purpose. So I thank Senator Graham for proceeding that way," h...