Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai said Thursday the agency will move forward to set new rules to clarify the meaning of a key legal protection for social media companies.
Pai stopped short of offering any concrete ideas or to say if he would propose narrowing social media companies legal protections that could jeopardize current business models. The Internet Association, a group representing major internet companies, including Facebook Inc , Amazon.com Inc, Twitter and Alphabet Inc’s Google said"the First Amendment protects every private enterprise’s ability to set and enforce rules for acceptable content on their services."
Pai has for months refused to offer any comment on the petition, and Trump has repeatedly demanded action. Still any final regulation could take at least another year.