Posted on 09/24/2020 11:05:14 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Senate Commerce Committee is planning to subpoena the executives of Google, Facebook and Twitter to testify at an Oct. 1 hearing on the law that gives tech companies a legal liability shield if they do not agree to appear voluntarily by Thursday night.
A spokesperson for the committee confirmed to The Hill that Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) intends to issue the subpoenas and believes their testimony to be crucial.
Politico first reported on the subpoena threat.
Spokespeople for Twitter and Facebook declined to comment. A spokesperson for Google did not immediately return a request for comment.
The hearing is set to focus on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which is considered the bedrock of the modern internet.
The 1996 law, which has come under increased scrutiny since President Trump targeted it in an executive order in May, gives internet companies immunity from lawsuits for content posted on their sites by third parties and allows them to make "good faith" efforts to moderate content.
The threat of having that protection revoked has increasingly been proposed as a cudgel to compel platforms to make changes by lawmakers, especially ones on the right.
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They did already and let them get away with murder. The five minute rule defeats the purpose of getting information. By the time the question is asked and answer there is absolutely no time for follow-up. Also, only one or two senators actually did any research.
Are these people just waking up to this - a month before the election?
Engineers who work in Silicon Valley are trained to solve unsolvable problems and they are very good at it.
The Senate and nearly any politician is WAY out of their league if they think they are going to get ANY info out of them.
They already know they have violated Anti Trust.
Why do you think they are using all their tools to fight Trump?
To stay out of prison.
See tag.
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