Boehlert: Trump's war on the media descends into murder claim, threat to "close down" Twitter

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4. This is not going anywhere. Ridiculous attempt to censure all companies under the ...

telecommunications act of 1996. Here's some language of this act...notice, this protects all carriers which is needed when one has 100s of millions of users on their networks. Trump is a joke. Way too much money invested by the industry on every facet of this act.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 (a common name for Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996) is a landmark piece of Internet legislation in the United States, codified at 47 U.S.C. § 230. Section 230(c)(1) provides immunity from liability for providers and users of an "interactive computer service" who publish information provided by third-party users:
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of an…

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