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Now might be a good time to mention that William Barr spent much of his career helping monopoly-minded phone and cable companies eliminate local competition and take control of broadband access in the United States
The result: Americans pay far higher prices for much slower connections than do internet users in most every other developed nation.
While he was General Counsel and EVP for Verizon Communications, Inc. in the aughts, one of Barr’s Associate General Counsels was none other than @AjitPaiFCC, the present-day chair of the @FCC.
Pai is now weighing a rulemaking tied to a Trump EO that seeks to punish platforms like Facebook & Twitter for fact-checking less-than-truthful posts by the president, effectively giving the Trump Administration the power to police online speech. https://www.freepress.net/news/press-releases/trump-administrations-section-230-petition-confusing-embarrassing-and-just
Along those lines, Barr's @TheJusticeDept has issued guidelines for new legislation to reduce or eliminate social-media companies’ protections under Section 230, and empower a government agency to determine whether platforms are acting in "good faith." https://www.freepress.net/news/press-releases/justice-department-proposal-overhaul-section-230-protections-unworkable
Yes, a lot of this is about "working the refs" in hopes that influential social-media companies will act favorably towards the GOP and its Dear Leader in a run-up to the elections.
