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Trump’s FCC pick has said he wants to ban TikTok, challenge Section 230
Though president-elect Donald Trump has been expected to stop the looming ban on TikTok, his political appointments suggest otherwise. Trump announced on
Still, the government under Biden ended up arriving at a similar conclusion, the president signed a bill that would force TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to sell the app, although the Chinese conglomerate is unlikely to comply. This position extends to Section 230, a part of the Communications Decency Act that, among other things, protects providers of online services — like social media networks — from being held liable for the user-generated content they host. Last year, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Twitter and Google in two adjacent cases that sought to hold the platforms accountable for hosting content from the Islamic State that promoted the terrorist organization in connection to violent attacks.
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