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
Oh. Legislative recommendations
Solved it!
this will never get past Plastic Nan’s desk
… let alone get thru the republican Senate … too much silicon valley $$$ buying enough of them off
It’s Eric Schmidt all over again.
Eric! Call Hillary. She found your penis in her dryer.
Barr is bullshit.
He’s slow-walking everything. We’ll be in a hot shooting war before he gets around to writing a swamp traitor a parking ticket.
Plans. To make recommendations.
That sounds more ominous than a strongly worded e-mail. But I’m pretty sure it’s not as bad as a non-positive memo.