Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine (www.techdirt.com)

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This could be the end of much of the fediverse, especially the more left-leaning parts.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Which brings us back to the core question: how could these Democratic Senators support a plan that would simultaneously give Donald Trump unprecedented censorship powers while also consolidating Meta’s control over online speech?

The evidence suggests they simply don’t understand what they’re doing. Each of these Senators has a documented history of fundamental confusion about Section 230 and how the internet works:

Richard Blumenthal has been getting Section 230 wrong since his days as Connecticut’s AG in the early 2000s.

Sheldon Whitehouse’s chapter on free speech revealed such profound confusion about Section 230 that it’s hard to believe he’s actually read the law.

We’ve already covered Durbin and Klobuchar’s dangerous misunderstandings.

I'm sure glad they're the representatives standing up for democracy haha right guys?

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