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Bipartisan lawmakers want to strip Big Tech's legal immunity that can shield social media companies

It was the mid-1990s. And the world was online.No doomscrolling for hours through Instagram and X.But people were plowing through GeoCities. There were Hotbot searches – before the days of Google and AI. There was even Ask Jeeves, long before Grok.Congress was on the precipice of adopting a landmark telecommunications law which would dictate the digital landscape for decades.When signing the Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law, former President Clinton declared how the measure would plow "a superhighway to serve both the private sector and the public interest."RAND PAUL SAYS PERSONAL EXPER...