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Lindsey Graham wants to make it harder for Facebook and other social media companies to silence criticsbut a tech analyst says he has a problem with his plan, the Washington Post reports.
Weissmann, a senior fellow at the R Street think tank, says Graham's proposal would put "a little too much power in the hands of the government and put free speech in danger."
Graham's plan would require social media companies to pay a licensing fee to the government, which Weissmann says would be "absurd" and "inconsistent with the First Amendment."
"If the government wants to regulate speech, it should regulate all kinds of things, not just social media," Weissmann tells the Post.
"It should not require companies to pay for speech that they don't want their users to hear."
Graham's proposal would require companies to pay "reasonable" licensing fees to the government, which Weissmann says would be "absurd" and "inconsistent with the First Amendment."
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