As usual @LindseyGrahamSC is a dumb as a box of hammers about Section 230 & how important it is to regulate tech in a smart way. If it is stripped — his word, but mine — it will mean anyone even slightly controversial will be taken off the platforms to protect from lawsuits.
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1347713461246169089
If he really understood the law & the First Amendment, he’d know that these are actually private spaces and not public squares & can dump people off and 230 has zip to do with that. Sounds like a socialist, since he wants private enterprise to be told what to do by government.
The tech industry, which is not a monolith, needs regulation, for sure, but it needs to be done with smarts and needs to treat each issue differently with a different solutions. Antitrust, fines, new laws, current regs applied. These tweets are nonsense, twitchy and reductive
And for the record in my many years of trying to get Congress to look at tech regulation and being a prominent critic, I have been contacted by dozens of legislators who want to do this right. Lindsay Graham? Not once.
I invite you @LindseyGrahamSC to have a real discussion — come on Sway if you like — about these important issues from tech addiction to keeping innovation going & more. Those folks who harangued you this week, btw, were programmed via online disinformation. Not so pretty, right?
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