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The TikTok ban highlights what Congress hasn’t done

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Despite the power of platforms like TikTok , Facebook, X and others, their regulation has been largely a political sideshow for two decades .

With no broad laws in place at all, it took an act of Congress , the Biden White House and ultimately the Supreme Court to take down a single app linked to China that could pose huge risks to the country and its users.

Donald Trump ’s pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission , Brendan Carr , implicitly threatens to revoke Section 230 liability over a lack of “good faith” toward conservatives in fact-checking and moderation efforts.

In the U.S. tech platforms’ freedom to moderate their platforms has led to the growth of a thick, impenetrable layer of apps that mediate users’ interactions with the internet and enjoy unfettered access to their personal data.

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