Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Ajit Pai
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Pai said on C-SPAN’s “The Communicators” that there is not enough time in the Trump administration to change Section 230 of the Communications Decency Action, which provides Internet companies liability protection for content posted by third parties and mitigated in good faith.
“Given that reality, I don’t think it’s appropriate to proceed,” he said, according to an edited transcript of Protocol’s interview.
Pai had announced in October that the agency would proceed with the executive order.
That decision drew harsh criticism from the two Democrats on the committee, as well as from lawmakers who questioned the FCC’s ability to clarify the meaning of laws in the way the warrant demanded.
Pai will step down from the office at the start of the President-elect Joe Biden
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The last FCC meeting with Pai in charge is scheduled for next Wednesday.