Former Democratic presidential candidate, Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton gave an interview to CNN on Saturday as part of her campaign push on behalf of Kamala Harris, where she called for a total repeal of Section 230, known to digital rights activists as “the First Amendment of the internet.”
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The justices, in a 5-4 decision, granted a request by NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association, which count Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) and YouTube as members, to block the law while litigation continues after a lower court on May 11 let it go into effect.
On Wednesday, without a word of explanation, the nation’s most radical appeals court reinstated a Texas law that imposes sweeping censorship on social media companies. The statute—which Republicans passed in retaliation against the perceived liberal bias of “Big Tech”—forces these companies to disseminate hateful expression, dangerous misinformation, and foreign propaganda, among other objectionable speech.
