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Ron Johnson: “Section 230 really in my mind has two parts. One needs to be…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Sen. Ron Johnson on Squawk Box: We need to target relief

Published | Video Starts at 12:05

But do you think next year something happens with that? Will that be bipartisan? Yeah, the social media companies have masked way too much power. And the Section 230 really in my mind has two parts. One needs to be retained and that's, you know, giving them liability protection from people that upload data onto their platforms. And by the way, I think they do a pretty good job of censoring like ISIS snuff videos and those types of things, and we should let them do that. (12:05–12:16)

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Asserts that part of Section 230 providing liability protection for user-uploaded content should be retained.

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