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State Legislatures Push to Fight Big Tech, but Experts Warn of Limitations
Feb 24, 2021
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The Washington Free Beacon
Shoshana Weissmann, a fellow at the R Street Institute, said the proposals would render the sites “completely unusable,” adding that “just as there is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment, which applies to government actions, the government also cannot mandate ‘hate speech’—or any speech in particular—remain on the platforms created by private companies.”
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