for as soon as this summer. Facebook has also disclosed an antitrust investigation by the Federal Trade Commission.
But while Democratic concerns have focused more on holding companies accountable for keeping users safe, Republicans have also placed emphasis on alleged censorship of conservative voices. Tech companies have repeatedly denied that they censor political speech, but instances where they have removed posts in error have fueled such criticism.
"While I believe reform of this outdated law is needed, I have serious concerns that under the supervision of Attorney General Barr this effort has been politicized and will be used by the Trump Administration to cow platforms into allowing Trump, dark money groups, and right-wing militias to continue to exploit their tools to sow disinformation, engage in targeted harassment, and suppress voter participation," Warner said.
So they want to amend a law that shields social media from lawsuits for what people say but not a law that shields police from consequences of their criminal acts?
ylanmui Let’s be clear, this wouldn’t be just a “minor change”
ylanmui amen
What will trump do if twitter just decided to shut down?
Another attack at freedom of speech. You guys may want to hide your guns.
Once Trump loses and Barr is gone this will just fade away like Trump!
What is the DOJ aiming for as an end result because there are only a couple possible outcomes. One outcome is that platforms can't monitor speech at all and are just forced to carry nazi meme pages that Pampers has to advertise on, and the other is across the board restrictions.