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Today, President Donald ***** plans to sign an executive order that would give the government huge new powers over the internet. As reported yesterday by The Washington Post, ***** will order the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission to roll back the liability protections enjoyed by tech companies under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. It’s a hugely ambitious proposal, arguably the biggest single attempt to regulate internet platforms, and for better or worse, it signals the beginning of an all-out war between ***** and any platform that tries to fact-check him.
As ***** ominously put it on Twitter, “This will be a Big Day for Social Media and FAIRNESS!”
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