Nokor Khmer, Oct 28 2020
Mr Zuckerberg, Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Google's Sundar Pichai were summoned before the Senate after both Democrats and Republicans backed a subpoena vote.
Senators are worried about both censorship and the spread of misinformation.
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The main legal section of the law is Section 230. What is this section?
Section 230 is the main legal protection for social networks so they don't get sued.
It means that generally, websites themselves aren't responsible for illegal or offensive things that users post on them. They're treated as neutral middlemen - like newspaper sellers, rather than the editors that decide what goes in the paper.
Originally seen as a way to protect internet providers (like BT or Comcast), it's become the main shield for huge sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, which can't possibly review every post from their users before they go up.
In full from BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54721023
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