The FCC has no jurisdiction over Section 230, which was explicitly written to deny the FCC any authority over websites
President Donald Trump shakes the hand … Tweets: Ajit Pai / @ajitpaifcc : I intend to move forward with an @FCC rulemaking to clarify the meaning of #Section230. Read my full statement below. https://twitter.com/... Jessica Rosenworcel / @jrosenworcel : The FCC has no business being the President's speech police. #Section230 https://twitter.com/... Tony Romm / @tonyromm : NEW: The FCC's push to regulate social media marks major about-face amid months of public political pressure from Trump and others. Pai previously questioned such regulation, and FCC aides expressed reservations in past White House meetings, sources say. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Daniel Rubino / @daniel_rubino : Section 230 is all political theater right now. Nothing will come from the FCC, who are tasked to enforce laws, not write, or interpret them (that's Congress and the courts, ahem). This is more nonsense from a tech illiterate admin more interested in outrage than solutions. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Marco Rubio / @marcorubio : This is long overdue. As I wrote yesterday, the egregious instances of censorship & partisan content moderation by social media companies like @Twitter & @Facebook are brazen attempts to twist & manipulate America's public square. https://www.rubio.senate.gov/ ... https://twitter.com/... Tony Romm / @tonyromm : Also in my story — the Republican state attorneys general might be taking a look at Facebook, Twitter for their handling of NY Post story. AG Landry, for one, told me they are generally “ready to take action,” wouldn't much elaborate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @alex : reading this, which is thus far very good https://www.techdirt.com/... Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : Let's not forget that Brendan Carr is a total hypocrite as well. Spent years insisting the FCC had no right or authority over the parts of the internet it actually did have authority over, now insists it must regulate the parts it has no authority over. https://twitter.com/... Mathew Ingram / @mathewi : “Pai is wrong in almost everything. . The FCC has no power to reinterpret the law” https://www.techdirt.com/... via @Techdirt Donald J. Trump / @realdonaldtrump : If Big Tech persists, in coordination with the mainstream media, we must immediately strip them of their Section 230 protections. When government granted these protections, they created a monster! https://twitter.com/... Geoffrey Starks / @geoffreystarks : We're in the midst of an election. The President's Executive Order on #Section230 was politically motivated and legally unsound. The FCC shouldn't do the President's bidding here. https://docs.fcc.gov/... Justin Amash / @justinamash : Ironically, @AjitPaiFCC is adding to the confusion by misstating the law. Section 230 does NOT convey “a special immunity denied to other media outlets, such as newspapers and broadcasters.” It applies all the same to social media companies, newspapers, broadcasters, you, and me. https://twitter.com/... Sarah Jeong / @sarahjeong : pretty much the tl;dr on this one!!! https://www.techdirt.com/... https://twitter.com/... @nxthompson : The Ajit Pai FCC until today: we need a light regulatory touch to keep innovation going. The Ajit Pai FCC today: the president is mad at Twitter and now we're going to dress up some bogus arguments and rewrite section 230 https://www.techdirt.com/... Tom Johnson / @tommjohnsonjr : I've informed Chairman @AjitPaiFCC that the @FCC has the legal authority to interpret #Section230. We now intend to move forward with a rulemaking to clarify its meaning. Read the Chairman's full statement below: https://twitter.com/... Boo-lake Reid / @blakereid : Here's @AjitPaiFCC just now: “Social media companies have a First Amendment right to free speech. But they do not have a First Amendment right to a special immunity denied to other media outlets, such as newspapers and broadcasters.” https://docs.fcc.gov/... 1/ Rep. Doris Matsui / @dorismatsui : This close to an election, President Trump's executive order to suppress free speech can only be taken as an attempt to censure his political rivals. The FCC should not be allowing #Section230 to be used as a political weapon. https://twitter.com/... Tim Wu / @superwuster : Looks like the FCC wants to punish Facebook and Twitter for failing to amplify Giuliani's wet firecracker. Not what I'd call a respectable, dignified or constitutional way to run an agency https://twitter.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : Republican FCC Chairs like Michael Powell and Kevin Martin spent endless amounts of time handling silly TV indecency scandals like the Janet Jackson Super Bowl situation, Dems walked all that back to focus on broadband, and now Pai is going to try and regulate speech again. Josh Hawley / @hawleymo : This is a major announcement from FCC on #BigTech. Now Congress must act on #Section230 https://twitter.com/... Karl Bode / @karlbode : pointing out Ajit Pai is inconsistent and spineless is usually my beat, but @mmasnick positively nails it here: “Ajit Pai is a hypocrite with no backbone, and no willingness to stand up to a grandstanding President.” https://www.techdirt.com/... Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : Ajit Pai is full of shit. He knows this is unconstitutional. He knows this is bullshit. And he's still doing it. Whoever thought he had a backbone has now been proven wrong. And a hearty “fuck you” to the people who insisted Pai wouldn't do this. https://twitter.com/...