Senate Commerce votes to issue subpoenas to CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter

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Source: CNN

The Senate Commerce Committee voted unanimously on Thursday to issue subpoenas to the CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter, in Washington's latest attack on Big Tech.

The subpoenas aim to force Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Jack Dorsey to testify about the legal immunity the law affords tech platforms under Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934. That law, Republicans argue, unduly protects social media companies against allegations of anti-conservative censorship. There is little evidence such bias exists on a systemic basis. Democrats have argued tech platforms have failed to moderate enough content under the law.

Thursday's charge was led by Sen. Roger Wicker, the Mississippi Republican who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee.

"I fear that Section 230's sweeping liability protections for Big Tech are stifling true diversity of political discourse on the internet," Wicker said. "On the eve of a momentous and highly charged election, it is imperative that this committee of jurisdiction and the American people receive a full accounting from the heads of these companies about their content moderation practices."

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[yaesu]

1. poor snowflakes, can't take on anything meaningful so they waste their time chasing ghosts. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Actually, the majority is more liberal, if unorganized, and they express their views

The minority conservatives want to use law and government to stifle those who disagree with them.

Conservatives see this as bias. Yet the bias runs the other way.

It's like a sporting event. If you work the refs and convince them to call an equal number of fouls and penalties on each team, all you have to do to win is tell your guys to play dirty and make all the fouls they can because they're only going to call 8 on each side.

[Stallion]

3. Creeping Socialism by Republicans: Government Overreach of Private Companies

Free-dumb. Besides don't they have their own social media site-parler or something.

[58Sunliner]

4. "Creeping Socialism by Republicans" ??

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5. let's see if repubs enforce their own subpoenas or let the targets ignore them nt