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mahatmakanejeeves

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Sun Mar 23, 2025, 01:50 PM Mar 23

Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine

Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine

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from the not-meant-for-this-moment dept
Fri, Mar 21st 2025 03:32pm - Mike Masnick

At the exact moment when Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are actively dismantling democratic institutions and working to silence critics, a group of Democratic Senators have decided to collaborate with Trump’s supporters to make it easier to censor speech online.

As reported in The Information (paywalled), several Democratic Senators are teaming up with some of Trump’s strongest Senate allies to repeal Section 230 — the law that both enables content moderation and protects websites from being sued into oblivion for hosting user speech.

They appear to be doing this out of a deep misunderstanding of how the law works combined with an astounding naiveté about how this process will be used by the MAGA faithful.

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Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Mar 23 OP
Here's the full article without the paywall. hedda_foil Mar 23 #1
Thank You! Think. Again. Mar 23 #3
They know exactly what they are doing. Irish_Dem Mar 23 #2
Is the fascist take over of our Democracy... Think. Again. Mar 23 #4
Collaborators rickyhall Mar 23 #5
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