[nojito]

>The Justice Department also will seek to make clear that tech platforms don’t have immunity in civil enforcement actions brought by the federal government, and can’t use immunity as a defense against antitrust claims that they removed content for anticompetitive reasons.

Oh boy...the costs of running Google, Twitter, Facebook and others... will quintuple overnight when Congress passes this.

[adventured]

It's wonderful to see the price of censorship by colluding monopolies is going to skyrocket.

I can't wait until the fines start raining down. They'll have earned every cent of the financial damages. The arrogant, biased platforms picked a fight they can't win with half the political power in the US.

This rapid, broad shift is why Larry and Sergey ran for the hills not long ago, abandoning Alphabet as fast as possible; they saw what was coming (including the anti-trust investigations). I bet they destroyed as much of their internal communication history as possible as well (legally of course, probably), so it can't be used against them or the company.

[pavlov]

It’s surreal that a popular Republican position now is: “We want the government to impose giant fines and new regulations on the most successful American businesses of the past decade, hopefully destroying them.”

Regardless of the merits of the idea, it’s an amazing paradigm shift for the GOP.

[jhawk28]

I don't think that is the position. I think they are just tired of a perceived bias against the right by left leaning aggregation organizations compounded with the cancel culture.

[Nasrudith]

It is still their position - that persecution complex is just their rationalization for their hypocrisy and abuse of power.

[root_axis]

What about the perceived bias against the left by right leaning news and radio organizations? This is dishonest partisan hackery.

[charwalker]

That's the thing, it's perceived and not real. Media outlets driving that narrative are lying to their viewers for clicks. If someone refuses to drop their bias in face of contrary evidence or that evidence isn't even presented alongside the initial claim, they may be watching an entertainment channel, not a news channel.

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/440703-evidence-contr...

[Auracle]

I can’t speak for Twitter and Facebook, but it’s absolutely real on Reddit. All one needs to do is look at how they treated r/the_donald compared to r/politics.

[SauciestGNU]

And seemingly all because these platforms deign to accurately represent how much opposition there is to the Republican agenda.

[GoblinSlayer]

A small tweak of moderation policy shouldn't destroy them.

[watwut]

It is not paradigm shift for GOP. Libertarians are not the only part of GOP.

[LegitShady]

Hint: this isn't new regulation, this is rolling back a regulation that is defending these publishers pretending to be platforms.