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The Federal Communications Commission’s top attorney now clarified the FCC’s concept of why it might provide President Donald Trump’s petition to get a fresh interpretation of a law that offers legal security to social networking platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.
Critics of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s program from the abandoned and directly state the FCC doesn’t have power to reinterpret Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which gives legal resistance to internet platforms which obstruct or change content submitted by users. FCC General Counsel Thomas Johnson said these critics are wrong within an blog article printed on the FCC site now .
Johnson noted that the Communications Decency Act had been passed by Congress as a member of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, that had been an upgrade into the Communications Act of 1934 which established the FCC also supplied it with regulatory ability. Johnson also pointed to Section 201(b) of the Communications Act, which gave the FCC power to”prescribe rules and regulations as might be required in public interest to carry out the terms of the Act”
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