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Leaked draft details Trump's likely attack on technology giants:
The Trump Administration is putting the final touches on a sweeping executive order designed to punish online platforms for perceived anti-conservative bias. Legal scholar Kate Klonick obtained a draft of the document and posted it online late Wednesday night.
[...] The document claims that online platforms have been "flagging content as inappropriate even though it does not violate any stated terms of service, making unannounced and unexplained changes to policies that have the effect of disfavoring certain viewpoints, and deleting content and entire accounts with no warning, no rationale, and no recourse."
The order then lays out several specific policy initiatives that will purportedly promote "free and open debate on the Internet."
First up is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
[...] Trump's draft executive order would ask the Federal Communications Commission to clarify Section 230—specifically a provision shielding companies from liability when they remove objectionable content.
[...] Next, the executive order directs federal agencies to review their ad spending to ensure that no ad dollars go to online platforms that "violate free speech principles."
Another provision asks the Federal Trade Commission to examine whether online platforms are restricting speech "in ways that do not align with those entities' public representations about those practices"—in other words, whether the companies' actual content moderation practices are consistent with their terms of service. The executive order suggests that an inconsistency between policy and practice could constitute an "unfair and deceptive practice" under consumer protection laws.
Trump would also ask the FTC to consider whether large online platforms like Facebook and Twitter have become so big that they've effectively become "the modern public square"—and hence governed by the First Amendment.
[...] Finally, the order directs US Attorney General William Barr to organize a working group of state attorneys general to consider whether online platforms' policies violated state consumer protection laws.
[Ed Note - The following links have been added]
Follow Up Article: Trump is desperate to punish Big Tech but has no good way to do it
The Executive Order: Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @02:59AM (3 children)
"Tell me what I did not get right"
Everything
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @05:35AM (2 children)
Poor Bot! Poor khallow! But just fuck VLM! These are the Dunning-Koegers of our lives, the ones so stupid that they cannot be aware of how stupid they are. And so, as several have advocated, arguing with them is useless.
But I, for one, hold out hope. I think, if we shame and humiliate them enough, they just might turn. Foucault had an issue with how when you are dealing with crazy people, you have to put it in the terms they thing in. So some crazy people believed they were dead, and so ceased eating. So all we have to do is show them pictures, say from Caspar the Freudliche Geist, where the dead do eat, and there madness might be circumvented. So we need the same for these recalcitrant "conservatives", presenting the real world in fantasy terms they will understand. Khallow! Squirrel!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @02:37PM (1 child)
"So some crazy people believed they were dead, and so ceased eating. So all we have to do is show them pictures, say from Caspar the Freudliche Geist, where the dead do eat, and there madness might be circumvented. So we need the same for these recalcitrant "conservatives", presenting the real world in fantasy terms they will understand."
Or, we could just let them die like the fools that they are. Don't forget that is an option too.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday May 31 2020, @10:21AM
> we could just let them die like the fools that they are
LOL you failed the progressive test. Progs are the guardians of the truth, so it's not allowable to let other people choose other behaviours and OBSERVE which group ends up better.
The truth: Vaccines save. (this is as retarted as saying "eating nourishes" while feeding you dirt, but let's not digress)
Enter AC: "we could just let the unvaxxed die like the fools that they are" wat? NO FUCKING WAY.
They must get vaxxed else vaccines do not work, because vaccines do work. Get it? No? I have bad news for you, after the dictatorship deals with the outspoken opposition, the reasonable one are usually the next target.
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