Nancy Pelosi Pushes to Remove Legal Protections for Online Content in Trade Pact

12/4/19
 
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from The Wall Street Journal,
12/4/19:

Internet companies have fought for the provisions in the USMCA deal with Canada and Mexico .

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing to strip out sweeping legal protections for online content in the new trade pact with Mexico and Canada, in what would be a blow for big technology companies.

Internet firms lobbied hard to include the immunity language in the trade agreement, seeing it as a way to extend to Mexico and Canada the broad umbrella of legal protection they enjoy in the U.S.

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