Earlier this month, freshman Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced legislation that would undermine the internet as we know it. Hawley’s “Ending Support for the Internet Censorship Act” would revise Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 and require large tech platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to be “politically neutral” in moderating user content.

While that may sound like a fine idea in principle, government enforcement of such a pie-in-the-sky standard could have severe unintended consequences, reminiscent of the failed Fairness Doctrine of yesteryear. There is no simple definition of neutrality, and big government providing one could expose users to more censorship — either from political pressure or regulators chilling speech.