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Tarc

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11. Potentially, yes, if this ever came into effect. Any forum, social media, etc...

Reply to DeSmet (Original post)

Fri May 29, 2020, 09:06 AM

May 2020

has latitude under Section 230 to regulate its users and police content for things deemed inappropriate.

But any attempt to pull something basted on his new EO would be tied up in the courts for a long while.

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