'No social media accounts for terrorists': House GOP pushes to block sanctioned foreign leaders from platforms

EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans are proposing legislation that would expand U.S. sanctions law to prohibit social media companies from allowing foreign individuals or entities sanctioned for terrorism to use their platforms. 

"U.S. law gives big tech a free pass to provide platforms to terrorist groups and dictators," Barr, R-Ky., told Fox News.  "Social media companies should not provide a vehicle for terrorist groups like ISIS to raise money or for dictators like the Ayatollah of Iran to spread propaganda."  Under current U.S. sanctions law, the president of the United States does not have the authority to require social media platforms to adhere to U.S. sanctions laws on terrorists due to the International Economic Emergency Powers Act of 1976—specifically the "Berman Amendments" passed in 1988 and 1994—which prohibit the president from even indirectly regulating or prohibiting anything to do with the free flow of informational services.