GOP senator introduces a bill that would blow up business models for Facebook, YouTube and other tech giants

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A GOP senator introduced a bill that would blow up business models for Facebook, YouTube, and other tech giants.

's YouTube from liability for the content users post. However, companies will be able to earn immunity from the crackdown if they submit to audits every two years to prove their algorithms and content-removal practices are "politically neutral."

The immunity provision of Hawley's bill echoes concerns from other politically conservative lawmakers that these platforms are censoring right-wing voices by unfairly removing them from the platform. For instance, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas,Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about alleged political bias during the executive's testimony before Senate in April 2018.

"This legislation simply states that if the tech giants want to keep their government-granted immunity, they must bring transparency and accountability to their editorial processes and prove that they don't discriminate," Hawley said.

 

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SenHawleyPress And, every one of the hundreds of thousands of other websites that host user content. HawleyMO needs to get staff who better understand the Internet, the 1st Amendment and Capitalism so they can give home some remedial lessons. He and/or his advisors don’t get it.

SenHawleyPress Kudos HawleyMO ! Thank you! HouseGOP SenateGOP GOP NRSC FreedomCaucus SenateMajLdr SteveScalise GOPLeader TedCruz RepMattGaetz DevinNunes RepMarkMeadows Jim_Jordan RepRatcliffe

please do!!

SenHawleyPress Senator Hawley, there is a Facebook group my team and I took down called the Melania Trump Watchdog Group that posted naked photos of the First Lady. This is a direct impact of the lack of an editorial committee of which you speak. I'm wondering if the President is even aware.

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