Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Ajit Pai
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Pai told C-SPAN’s “Communicators” that there is not enough time left in the Trump administration to amend section 230 of the Communications Decency Action, which grants Internet companies responsibility for content protection. published by third parties and moderated in good faith.
“Given that reality, I don’t think it’s appropriate to move forward,” he said, according to an edited transcript of the Protocol interview.
Pai had announced in October that the agency would move forward with the executive order.
This decision received harsh criticism from the commission’s two Democrats, as well as from lawmakers who questioned the FCC’s ability to clarify the meaning of the laws in the way the order required.
Pai will have to leave the agency at the beginning of the president-elect Joe Biden
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The FCC’s last meeting with Pai at the helm is set for next Wednesday.