OPINION:
One of America’s hottest debates in recent years has been over the legal immunity social media executives are awarded for their platforms, which has given them the ability to boot voices they don’t like and promote only those they favor — and cry no harm, no foul even when they allow posts that are defamatory and maliciously false in nature. That may soon change.
Now there’s a bill before Congress that may strip social media CEOs of their Section 230 protections.
Rep. Jimmy Patronis, R-Florida, introduced this month the PROTECT Act to repeal Section 230, primarily to give parents the tools they need to protect their children.
As he said: the climate on social media has become so hostile that some teenagers have even committed suicide over videos that have been posted against their will, and that social media officials refuse to remove.
Tune in for more with Rep. Jimmy Patronis on the PROTECT Act, as well as discussion on America’s removal from the World Health Organization and what’s shaping in Davos from the World Economic Forum that could impact this administration’s fight against woke corporate ESG — environmental, social and governance — goals.
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