SCOTUS to hear challenge to Section 230 protections 👀
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Section 230 lost its meaning the moment Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell allowed Obama to hand over U.S. control of the internet. Censorship really took off after 2015 as social media tech companies thought they were no longer beholden to the 1st amendment.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-administration-backs-plan-to-relinquish-internet-control
The transfer was set in motion two years ago when a Commerce Department agency said it would cede oversight over an obscure, but powerful, Los Angeles-based nonprofit called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
The agency, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, announced Thursday that the game plan they got back from ICANN – which would hand over the reins to a “multi-stakeholder” group, and not a single government – is now in line with what they want.