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...