DOJ Plans To Roll Back Tech Monopoly Legal Protections Over Left-Wing Speech Policing – IOTW Report

DOJ Plans To Roll Back Tech Monopoly Legal Protections Over Left-Wing Speech Policing

Federalist:

The Justice Department announced plans Wednesday to make legislative recommendations for changes to the legal protections surrounding big tech companies.  

The decision comes just a day after Google Ads attempted to demonetize The Federalist over “race based content” and just a month after President Trump signed an executive order with intentions to curb the cut back on the protections after alleged censorship of conservative news outlets. Attorney General William Barr, according to the Wall Street Journal, also “has repeatedly voiced concerns about online-platform immunity.”

According to the WSJ, the proposal “would remove legal protections when platforms facilitate or solicit third-party content or activity that violates federal criminal law, such as online scams and trafficking in illicit or counterfeit drugs” and rescind monetary damage immunity from companies that knowingly allow illicit activity to continue. It would also ensure that companies “don’t have immunity in civil-enforcement actions brought by the federal government, and can’t use immunity as a defense against antitrust claims that they removed content for anticompetitive reasons.” more

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