Should we or not revise the American law of 1996 guaranteeing Internet platforms legal immunity with regard to content published by their users?
And if yes, how?
The fascinating question was at the heart of the summons of Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Sunday Pichai (Google) and Jack Dorsey (Twitter) to the US Senate Trade Committee.
In the end, however, the subject was barely dealt with during this meeting of nearly four hours held by videoconference.
The fault, thundered the Democratic senators, on the date chosen for this hearing.
“This discussion takes place six days before
the presidential election
.
The Republican majority is politicizing an issue that should be anything but partisan, ”
lamented Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar.
“It's a masquerade!
The Republicans are trying to intimidate the bosses of the tech ”
in the home stretch of the campaign, thundered his colleague Brian Schatz, who gave up asking questions to the three
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