The Justice Department is ratcheting up pressure on digital platforms with a new proposal to restrict the immunity that protects online companies from being held legally accountable for user-posted content, according to the Wall Street Journal. But the proposal may be more flash than substance. It would require congressional action to enact and it is unlikely to get through the...
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