Social Media Companies Should Look to First Amendment Principles

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Social media companies should look to first amendment principles, says CNN's John Berman. The government can't mandate that of a private company whether they could remove certain section 230 protections he adds. But the government could maybe require transparency on what it looks like yeah so it feels like the minimum would be to have transparency I mean one of the things that strikes me about this moment is both there does seem to have been some amount of shadow banning in the past.

Congressman Ro Khanna is an American politician, lawyer, and academic. He is currently serving as U.S. Representative for California's 17th district, including much of Silicon Valley.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Ro Khanna discuss how we can protect free speech and civic agency in the age of the internet; what it would mean to have a cultural patriotism that celebrates both the tradition and the dynamism of American life; and where he stands on the debates concerning misinformation and censorship.

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