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Radio: Licensing Requirements for Social Media Companies are a Bad Idea

by Shoshana Weissmann
May 12, 2023
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issues: Federal Government Affairs, Online Content Policy, Technology and Innovation
originally published in Inside Sources with Boyd Matheson

There’s been a lot of frustration in Congress about how social media companies function. So, Senator Lindsey Graham is proposing that we require licensing for these platforms. But Shoshana Weissmann from R Street says it could put a little too much power in the hands of the government and put free speech in danger. 

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