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A ‘must pass’ bill that funds the U.S. military was vetoed by Donald Trump because it failed to repeal Section 230.

Hot button issue. >> neil: so conservatives raise the bias issue and the algorithm slant conservatives opinion, for example. where is all of this going? both parties seem to agree that we got to reign all of these guys in. facebook is the face of it what to you think? >> its going to go to some sort of regulation. were looking a at a section of the code that was established before the internet. so it needs to massaged a little bit. the thing we have to be careful of and i hope that the hill is a...

To oversee our algorithm and to handle appeals. its their own compliance department. >> neil: but these legislators want more now. they have this digital currency, we want to look at that. youre freaking us out. that theyve got ten too big for their britches. >> yes and havent provided confidence in the markets and to congress. so what were going to see is an extension of -- theres a telecommunications act, section 230 that protects giants like facebook. theyre shielded from the third parties th...

Exemptions granted in the law that allowed these social media companies not to have the same kind of libel requirements that your network has. they said they had no ability to curate or interview any of the information. weve clearly seen over the last decade plus thats not the case. there is some prioritization based upon certain algorithms of what kind of news you receive. so the ultimate tool is this so-called section 230. there may be a discussion in terms of the ability, if you get tired of ...

An instrument to conduct operations. there are things they could do to deter or mitigate terrorist use of these sites. and they also profit from the terrorist postings. and all three of those things should .allowed to continue. one of the reasons they do all of this because there is a law called section 230, the communications decency act, which they believe insulates them from any responsibility for anything that goes on on those sites and that shouldnt be. they shouldnt get a get-out-of-jail-f...