Thread by @JanJekielek

.@DrJBhattacharya: Decisions to censor #COVID19 some science harmed "every single American."

Sitting in at the @EnergyCommerce hearing, “Preserving #FreeSpeech & Reining in #BigTech #Censorship," with @DrJBhattacharya, @SethDillon, @ShellenbergerMD, @SpencerOverton testifying. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

.@ShellenbergerMD is proposing legislated full transparency by #BigTech platforms, mandating public disclosure of each censorship decision, and an opportunity to respond.

"An existing transparency proposal before Congress would further empower and docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@ShellenbergerMD The correct Energy & Commerce Committee Twitter is @HouseCommerce.

I intended to live tweet, but I'm engrossed in the discussion & the very different worldviews which different congressional members seem to hold.

& you can catch the whole hearing here👇

All the panelists testifying agree that #Section230 needs to be reformed, but have quite different views on how to do that.

@SpencerOverton favors a carve out for ederal civil rights violations:

"So this carve out would basically say, hey, 230 applies generally, but not for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

.@RepBalderson: Are you aware of other social media platforms engaging in censorship of non illegal content on their sites at the direction of the government agencies?

@ShellenbergerMD: Yeah, absolutely. There was both the Election Integrity Project & something called the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…