The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has dismissed for lack of jurisdiction the Center for Democracy & Technology's challenge of President Trump's executive order aimed at limiting Communications Decency Act section 230's liability protections for third-party content hosted or transmitted by Internet intermediaries such as Facebook, Inc., and Twitter, Inc.The court said that CDT did not have standing to challenge the executive order, which "imposes no obligation on CDT (or any other private party), but... merely directs government officials to take preliminary steps towards possible lawmaking. CDT's claimed injury is not concrete or imminent and is thus insufficient to establish Article Ⅲ standing. Even if CDT managed to clear the standing hurdle, it faces redressability and ripeness problems too," the court said. It also rejected the notion that CDT could gain standing by representing the interests of companies like Facebook and Twitter.
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