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• One year after the passage of the Telecommunications Act, the Clinton administration’s 1997 e-commerce white paper framed a hands-off approach to regulation of internet services.
• stated that the government should support industry self-regulation and avoid unnecessary restrictions on activities over the internet. Soon after, the 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act sustained an exemption from state taxation for e-commerce services and certain other services for three years. It was renewed eight times until eventually President Obam...
• Many of the concerns about platforms today—whether the spread of misinformation and offensive communications or the power of social media to prevent or promote such communications—are a function of their scale and augmented network effects rather than endemic to platforms
• Repeal of Section 230 would take a blunderbuss to a problem that calls for a laser knife. It is not just Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube that benefit from Section 230. It would create exposure for the many apps and hosting services, offered by both startups and established companies, that accept user-generated content and could impose burdens on new ...

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