AG Barr on tech companies censoring viewpoints: 'There's something very disturbing about what's going on'

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“There's something very disturbing about what's going on,” Attorney General William Barr told Maria Bartiromo in an exclusive interview responding to recent incidents where technology companies, including Google and Twitter, tried to censor content.

that would hold Facebook, Twitter and other tech behemoths accountable for what is posted on their platforms – a move that if passed would roll back protections Silicon Valley has had for decades.

The DOJ, in a news release, said it was calling for lawmakers to "update the outdated immunity for online platforms" under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.Bartiromo noted that “the DOJ plans to roll back … the monopoly, legal protections that technology companies enjoy” and asked, “What prompted this?”

“During the early days of the Internet, we wanted to encourage platforms to take off obscene material or harassing material or other kinds of offensive material like that and so what we said was in the law, Section 230, if you take that down, that doesn't make you a publisher, if you take down objectionable material like that,” Barr explained.

 

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А вы с этим согласны?

Barr is a disgrace who deserves to wind up behind bars.

billbarr is a putz..

It’s time for them all to leave.

Back in 1997-1998 there were probably close to 1- search engines that each produced different results. This was in addition to various other search engines. Google has taken over everything. From Web searches to USENET.

Vomit... Everything coming out of his mouth is vomit, lies

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