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Tech’s Legal Shield Appears Likely to Survive as Congress Focuses on Details



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WASHINGTON — Former President Donald J. Trump called multiple times for repealing the law that shields tech companies from legal responsibility over what people post. President Biden, as a candidate, said the law should be “revoked.”But the lawmakers aiming to weaken the law have started to agree on a different approach. They are increasingly focused on eliminating protections for specific kinds of content rather than making wholesale changes to the law or eliminating it entirely.That has still left them a question with potentially wide-ranging outcomes: What, exactly, should lawmakers cut?One bill introduced last month would strip the protections …

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