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by fumar 130 days ago
What is the purpose of repealing this act? Make platforms liable and thus enact more restrictions, is that right?
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Makes selective political retribution easier.
As you suggest, it's clearly to curtail free speech further; but in a way that their supporters can claim isn't fascist because 'it's the companies doing it not the government'.

We do really need non-USA based social media, stat.

Companies already have the right to curtail space as much as they want. The government wants to force companies to ban left-wing speech.