With #Section230 Repeal, Dems and #Media Offer #Trump New #Censorship Tools

source: fair.org/home/with-section-230…

Dissolving the provision would reassign legal responsibility to websites and third parties, empowering a Trump-helmed federal #government to force #online platforms to stifle, or promote, certain speech. While the ostensible purpose of the repeal, according to Durbin, is to “protect kids online,” it’s far more likely to give the Trump #WhiteHouse carte blanche to advance its ultra-reactionary political #agenda.

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With Section 230 Repeal, Dems and Media Offer Trump New Censorship Tools 

Dissolving Section 230 would empower a Trump-helmed federal government to force online platforms to stifle, or promote, certain speech.

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