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Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act could be seen as the legal foundation that today’s Internet rests upon. But that might soon change. What impact would it have if platforms were regulated for user content?

Rioters mobilized to storm the US Capitol predominantly on social media. When Facebook, Twitter and other major networks started removing the most extreme posts, users migrated to platforms like Parler and MeWe.

Online Extremism to Dominate Section 230 and Encryption Debates SHARE Last week’s attack on the Capitol removed any doubts that the regulation of social media will continue to be a Congressional priority after the Trump administration ends. The president and his allies have argued for legislative changes to address alleged anti‐​conservative bias within the most popular social media companies. These complaints have often overshadowed concerns from Democratic lawmakers, who have exp...

Conservative users are increasingly jumping ship from major social networks like Facebook and Twitter, and heading for platforms like Parler, Gab and MeWe. Many feel their right to freedom of speech is under threat.

Parler claimed in a court filing Wednesday that Amazon said it was "definitely in this journey with" the social media company as it encountered abuse reports.

The so-called deplatforming of Donald Trump has provoked misguided cries of censorship and injustice. Thinking about powerful for-profit corporations like Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon as platforms is a fundamental misconception that lets the companies off the hook. These internet services are publishers and they have a right, and a duty, to exercise judgment.  After years of poisoning the civic well with his unique brand of lies, insults, distortions, narcissism, and overall poor manners, Pre...

Thursday, January 14, 2021 With the Senate set to flip to Democratic control in the 117th Congress, albeit by a razor thin margin, the policy priorities for the upper chamber are likely to significantly change.  In so doing, the various Senate committees will have new chairs, and their agendas will likely vary at least in part on the partisan make-up of the committees. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation has a long tradition of bipartisan cooperation.  Execu...

David Goldbergerer told Newsweek that a permanent social media ban on Trump would be "ridiculous," but the platforms decisions to do so does not violate the Constitution.

https://www.afinalwarning.com/488682.html (Natural News) Silicon Valley’s Big Tech oligarchs and their network of fact checkers and communist investors have officially crossed the Rubicon and are well on their way to completely dictating democracy in America and around the world. For years, conservatives believed that free market competition could solve Big Tech censorship. Dan Bongino was one of many conservative leaders who thought the free market could provide a platform for free speech ...

A proposed bill from Republican state lawmakers in North Dakota could see Facebook and Twitter face lawsuits from users who have been censored on their platforms. Some experts argue the law would have no effect due to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), the law that enables the Big Tech Masters of the Universe to enjoy legal immunity in cases related to censorship.