Thanks for reminding me about those efforts. Glad they've mostly petered out by now.
They have not petered out, and if the Republicans take control of the House in 2022, they have already sworn to immediately pass legislation on this subject.
And with this radically anti-Free Speech conservative supreme court majority, you better believe that the rights of private networks to publish content free from government interference is still high risk.
Re:Gab.com’s Response to Congress
by AnimalMuppet on Thursday September 02, 2021 @12:18PM
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What is your evidence that the Supreme Court majority is "radically anti-Free Speech"?
This entire debate is about making private networks such as Facebook into "public/government spaces", thus meaning the Bill Of Rights would apply to a private company (an outrageously anti-Constitutional concept) and it would count as government censorship for Twitter to ban an insurrectionist like Trump.