U.S, Senator Josh Hawly (R Missouri) has introduced a new bill which specifically addresses the question of 'big tech' companies like FaceBook, Google and Twitter being either platforms or publishers. In a nutshell, Twitter claims immunity under Section 230 of the Commutations Decency Act (1996) and they censor users at the same time. Sen. Hawly proposes that they are either a utility (like AT&T) or they're a publisher; they cannot be both. The bill also addresses algorithms used by search engines (like Google) that skew search results or otherwise manipulate searches.
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