FCC chairman Ajit Pai has now said he won’t clarify the meaning of Section 230 free speech internet rules he promised in October 2020. By January 20th, he’ll be gone and Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th US president. “There’s simply not sufficient time to complete the administrative steps necessary in order to resolve the rule-making. Given that reality, I do not believe it’s appropriate to move forward,” he told Protocol in an interview.
Section 230, which gives social media sites like Facebook and Twitter immunity from lawsuits over user content was drafted and passed by Congress. “The FCC cannot rewrite acts of Congress to suit its whims,” the ACLU’s senior legislative counsel Kate Ruane told Recode last year. “Section 230 is critical to protecting free speech online and the FCC has no authority to change it, especially not in ways that will undermine free expression.”
He also noted that he wouldn’t second-guess Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media sites over their decision to restrict Trump from posting. “I think it was a terrible mistake to suggest that the results of the election, and particularly the process that culminated yesterday in the Senate and the House, could in any way be changed,” he said. “That was a terrible mistake and one that I do not think in any way should have been indulged.”
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