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Part 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which says apps and web sites aren’t legally answerable for third-party content material, has impressed a variety of overheated rhetoric in Congress. Republicans like Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) have efficiently framed the rule as a “present to Large Tech” that allows social media censorship. Whereas Democrats have very totally different critiques, some have embraced an identical fire-and-brimstone tone with the bipartisan EARN IT Act. However a Senate subcommittee tried to reset that narrative as we speak with a listening to for the Platform Accountability and Client Transparency (PACT) Act, a equally bipartisan try at a extra nuanced Part 230 modification. Whereas the listening to didn’t tackle the entire PACT Act’s very actual flaws, it…
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