Politics & Technology
NewsOnScale Staff
October 4, 2026
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, passed in 1996, gives social media platforms broad legal immunity for content moderation decisions. Platforms can remove, suppress, amplify, or algorithmically bury any content they choose with no legal liability for doing so.
It has been debated, criticized, and threatened by politicians on both sides for years. It has never been reformed.
Donald Trump experienced platform suppression firsthand. He was banned from Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube after January 6, 2021. He built Truth Social as a direct response. He spent four years in office after returning to power, with every tool of the executive branch at his disposal, and Section 230 remains exactly as it was in 1996.
JJ Johnson, declared 2028 presidential candidate and founder of AMILLI AI, Corp., built Skrrl.com for the same reason Trump built Truth Social — because the platforms owned by defense contractors and their partners are not neutral infrastructure. He has documented 20 months of systematic suppression of his campaign content across six platforms. He has a filed federal complaint, Case No. 1:26-cv-00197-RH-HTC. He is preparing a second.
The difference is what he would do with executive authority.
What a president can do without Congress
Executive orders directing the FTC to treat algorithmic suppression of political content as an unfair commercial practice subject to consumer protection enforcement. Direction to the Department of Justice to prioritize antitrust enforcement against platforms that simultaneously hold government defense contracts and suppress independent political voices. Federal procurement conditions requiring platforms with defense contracts to meet baseline content neutrality standards for political candidates.
None of these require Congress to act. All of them are within executive authority.
What requires Congress
Actually amending or repealing Section 230 requires legislation. But a president who came from the tech world, who built the payment rails for the AI agent economy, who built a social platform because the existing ones were suppressing him, and who documented every failure with timestamps and control tests — that president walks into those congressional negotiations with something no other candidate has: receipts.
The platform problem is structural
The companies that benefit most from Section 230's protections are the same companies with billions in federal defense contracts, the same companies whose executives sat at the White House AI lunch on September 29, and the same companies named in Johnson's federal complaints.
Section 230 wasn't written to protect companies that simultaneously hold government contracts and suppress the political speech of candidates running against the status quo. It was written to protect a fledgling internet from liability for user content.
The internet is no longer fledgling. The platforms are no longer neutral. The law hasn't caught up.
A president who built AMilliPay and PumpAMilli — with Phantom wallet integration on the Solana blockchain — understands the technology well enough to write policy that addresses it. That's different from a politician who learned what an algorithm is from a briefing paper.
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