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Does Section 230’s Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech Bad Behavior?

GOP Senators Grill Twitter, Google, and Facebook CEOs

Sen. Ted Cruz to Twitter CEO: "Mr Dorsey, who the hell elected you...?" Sen. Ted Cruz to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: "Mr Dorsey, who the...
Antony Blinken NSCAI Global Emerging Technology Summit

US and European Leaders Warn About China Setting Standards on AI

Top U.S. and European leaders recently spoke about how democracies should set the rules for artificial intelligence (AI), instead of an authoritarian regime like China. “We cannot...
Commerce Science Transportation Committee

Does Section 230’s Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech Bad Behavior?

U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a hearing titled, “Does Section 230’s Sweeping Immunity Enable...
Banning TikTok

TikTok Tracked User Data Using Tactic Banned by Google

TikTok skirted a privacy safeguard in Google’s Android operating system to collect unique identifiers from millions of mobile devices, data that allows the app...
Chairman Ajit Pai of the FCC

Statement of Chairman Ajit Pai on Section 230

WASHINGTON, October 15, 2020—Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai issued the following statement today on Section 230 of the Communications Act: "Members of all three...

Secretary Pompeo’s video remarks at the “Prague 5G Security Conference”

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo's video remarks at the "Prague 5G Security Conference 2020" on September 23, 2020. About The Clean Network The Clean Network...

Trump Bans TikTok & WeChat Explained

Michael Wrubel breaks down what is going on with President Trump issuing executive orders banning U.S. transactions with Chinese tech firms Tencent and ByteDance...
The Trump White House

Remarks by President Trump Announcing an Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship

Oval Office 3:47 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you very much.  We’re here today to defend free speech from one of the gravest dangers it has...
United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General

The Justice Department Unveils Proposed Section 230 Legislation

Today, on behalf of the Trump Administration, the Department of Justice sent draft legislation to Congress to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency...
The Trump White House

Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered...
The Trump White House

Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic...
Mike Pompeo speaks to the Media

Europe must put security first with 5G

Michael R. Pompeo is U.S. Secretary of State. EU communications ministers will gather in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss how to safeguard emerging fifth-generation (5G)...