In their bid to exert control over super-influential platforms like Facebook, their critics consistently bring up several talking points, either as actual policy, or a form of warning and pressure: breaking the giants up is a popular one, but lately getting rid of the safe harbor status guaranteed by Section 230 is being increasingly mentioned as well.
And Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden has changed his mind on Section 320: once a supporter of the law that contains it, the Communications Decency Act (CDA), he now wants it repealed.
This is all to target Facebook, of course - with whom Biden is currently engaged in a "war" over its refusal to remove a Trump campaign ad that he considers to contain false information.
In a short CNN video Biden is heard saying that social media platforms need to be "more socially conscious" and also demonstrate "journalistic responsibility."
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