FCC Won’t Move Forward With Trump’s Section 230 Order, Ajit Pai Says

FCC Won’t Move Forward With Trump’s Section 230 Order, Ajit Pai Says
Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, speaks at the WSJTECH Live conference in Laguna Beach, Calif., on Oct. 21, 2019. Mike Blake/Reuters
Bill Pan
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The outgoing Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai on Thursday said his agency will not be working to fulfill President Donald Trump’s executive order about internet liability protections.

Pai, who is set to step down after Inauguration Day, said in October 2020 that the FCC would “move forward” on Trump’s executive order, which asked the agency to “clarify” Section 230, as part of the Trump administration’s effort to counter the alleged anti-conservative bias and censorship from social media giants like Facebook, Google, and Twitter.