{"id":31416,"date":"2021-02-04T17:43:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T01:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31416"},"modified":"2021-02-04T17:43:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T01:43:37","slug":"democrat-warns-tech-companies-to-step-up-or-risk-section-230-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31416","title":{"rendered":"Democrat warns tech companies to &#8216;step up&#8217; or risk Section 230 changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) warned tech companies on Thursday to ramp up content moderation or risk changes to Section 230.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson said during a hearing on the threat of domestic terrorism that there appears to be bipartisan support to look at reforming the landmark law that provides companies a legal liability shield over content posted on their platforms by third parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo for those companies that might be listening to this hearing, it\u2019s absolutely essential that they step up in a big way, because obviously from a question and responses there&#8217;s interest on the right and left \u2014 Democrat and Republican \u2014 that we have to look at it. And I assure you as chair we will,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31417,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31416\/revisions\/31417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}