Democrats and Republicans both want to change legal protections for tech companies, but they disagree sharply on the types of reforms.
A Senate committee is asking the CEOs of Google, Facebook and Twitter to testify on Section 230, a 24-year-old liability shield that tech companies claim is essential to keeping social media companies alive but President Trump and many Democrats alike have criticized for varying — and often contradictory — reasons....
Republicans and Democrats on the committee are looking for tech leaders to testify on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, though some of the committee’s Democrats are largely focused on antitrust and privacy issues,
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