Big tech was in the crosshairs once again at one of the biggest annual gatherings of conservative politicians and personalities.
In speeches at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), elected officials, including Sens. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., targeted big tech and the legal immunity companies enjoy under Section 230, which is currently being considered by the Supreme Court.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Co., said in her speech Saturday: “I have called for 230 protections to be removed from these big tech companies who are hiding behind section 230, and they are acting like editors rather than publishers.”
But unlike last year’s conference, speakers shied away from boosting a grand utopian vision of a conservative “parallel economy” shielded from the…
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