(Reuters) — Four Republican U.S. senators on Tuesday urged the Federal Communications Fee (FCC) to take a look at whether or no longer to revise liability protections for web firms after President Donald Trump urged circulation. Trump talked about final month he wishes to “take away or switch” a provision of a law that shields social media firms from liability for command material posted by their users and directed a U.S. Commerce Division company to petition the FCC to take circulation interior 60 days.

Senators Marco Rubio, Kelly Loeffler, Kevin Cramer, and Josh Hawley asked the FCC to take a look at Share 230 of the Communications Decency Act and “clearly account for the components for which firms can rating protections under the statute.”

“Social media firms maintain develop to be fascinated about a vary of editorial and promotional inform; esteem publishers, they monetize, edit, and in any other case editorialize user command material. It’s time to take a original witness at Share 230 and to define the vague normal of ‘staunch faith’ with particular pointers and route,” the senators wrote.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr, in an interview aired on Fox Data Channel on Tuesday, echoed the senators’ views. “These entities for the time being are engaged in censorship,” he talked about. “We are looking out, as many others are, at changing Share 230,” Barr talked about, collectively with that the switch would require circulation by the U.S. Congress.

White Residence spokesperson Judd Deere effectively-known Trump’s executive uncover formally requesting the FCC take a second witness at Share 230. Trump’s uncover seeks to curtail firms’ factual protections after Twitter added a witness that one of his tweets violated its principles for “glorifying violence.” This came quickly after it slapped a fact-take a look at mark on one other of his tweets opposing voting by mail. It become the principle time Twitter had challenged Trump’s posts.

Last week, an advocacy crew backed by the tech industry sued, asking a possess to block the executive uncover.

FCC Chair Ajit Pai — who in 2018 talked about he did no longer survey a role for the company to aid watch over web sites esteem Fb, Alphabet’s Google, and Twitter — declined to comment on probably actions based on Trump’s executive uncover. He told journalists on Tuesday it would no longer be relevant to “prejudge a petition that I haven’t considered.”

FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly talked about on Tuesday the uncover poses plenty “of very advanced components.” O’Rielly tweeted earlier “as a conservative, I’m afflicted voices are stifled by liberal tech leaders. At [the] same time, I’m extraordinarily devoted to the First Amendment which governs noteworthy here.”