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Senators on Wednesday introduced the first bipartisan bill of the new Congress aimed at holding companies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter more accountable for their content moderation practices by overhauling their liability protections.
The PACT Act, a bipartisan bill from Sens. Brian Schatz, a Hawaii Democrat, and John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, will focus on content moderation transparency within social media platforms and allows for Big Tech companies to be sued and regulated by federal and state regulators.
It would take the first steps at the federal level under the Biden administration toward reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a provision that protects social media companies from liability for content posted by their users.
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Senator Thune files statement of candidacy for 2022 US Senate Election. Primary Thune organizer claims they’re bigger than GOP.
Senator Thune files statement of candidacy for 2022 US Senate Election. Primary Thune organizer claims they’re bigger than GOP.
It’s on.
South Dakota’s senior US Senator, John Thune, filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission yesterday declaring his candidacy for the US Senate seat he currently holds for the 2022 election:
This comes at about the same time that former GOP Congressional Candidate Bruce Whalen, who has taken up the mantle to try to gin up a primary challenge against Thune via facebook, is declaring that his group is bigger than the South Dakota Republican Party.
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ST. PAUL U.S. Senate Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., is introducing a bill to extend Americans tax filing deadline from April 15 to July 15 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U.S. Treasury Department has already announced that it will extend the 2019 tax payment deadline to July. But in a Thursday, March 19 news release from Thune s office, the South Dakota Republican said extending the filing deadline is important for taxpayers who need to travel in order to obtain tax documents, or meet with an accountant, but can t because of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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