The order requires the Federal Communication Commission to clarify a section of the Communications Decency Act that largely exempts online companies from any legal liability concerning users’ content. It also directs the White House Office of Digital Strategy to redouble its efforts to collect complaints of online censorship and submit them to the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department.
The president, in the Oval Office, decried social media companies as monopolies that have become more influential than newspapers and broadcasters.
The director of the Cato Institute’s Project on Emerging Technologies, Matthew Feeney, commented that “as misleading and legally flawed as the order is, it is nonetheless concerning.”
Barr, in the Oval Office with Trump for the signing of the executive order, said the administration is preparing legislative proposals regarding social media companies and also will pursue litigation.
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