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Trump is threatening to close down social media companies. Can he actually do that?

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Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe breaks it down well: Just to be clear: Trump’s statement that Twitter, a private company, is abridging his First Amendment freedom of speech by tagging his wild tweets about write-in voter fraud as misleading is totally absurd and legally illiterate.

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Trump’s latest attack on Section 230 is really about censoring speech

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Both President Trump and Joe Biden have called for the end of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act , which protects tech companies in most cases when their users post something illegal on their platforms. Mitch must fight back and repeal Section 230, immediately. the president wanted to know.

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How Shopify’s network of sellers can take on Amazon

The Verge

It’s not a Section 230 conversation. But also, a lot of it is based on machine learning and AI, whereby we know certain keywords or meta tags contravene the AUP, and they’re gone. And then we kick them off. You’re not running a social media platform. You’re running a commerce platform. I mean, you mentioned the Trump store.

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Section 230, the internet law the Supreme Court could change, explained

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You may have never heard of it, but Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is the legal backbone of the internet. Section 230 says that internet platforms hosting third-party content are not liable for what those third parties post (with a few exceptions ). This alarmed some lawmakers.