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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: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2020, @04:11PM (20 children)
Nice attempt at diversion. No, actually, pathetic attempt at diversion. Can't find the flaw in the message, try to find the flaw in the messenger.
Instead of telling me that I live in a bubble, or pointing out that I post anonymously, or trying to find some other flaw in my character, why don't you try answering my question ? I'll rephrase it for you:
Do you seriously think that the conservatives that are currently condemning Twitter's actions, and accusing them of trying to censor the President and to stiffle freedom of speech would be so vocal and militant if the current President was a liberal ?
And by the way:
Oh, I don't know, maybe because they freely, willingly, and knowingly voted one as the President of the freaking United States ?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2020, @09:21PM (19 children)
Please post your evidence that the president is a child molester.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2020, @10:15PM (3 children)
If the President of the United States doesn't need evidence to throw wild criminal accusations, then neither do I.
But I'll be a good sport. Google "Epstein", "boat", "golden shower parties", and "13 year-old prostitues". Oh yeah, you can throw in "Bill Clinton" if you like. Not all filthy pedos are conservatives.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @02:57AM (2 children)
Please post your evidence. Not a general statement to google some terms that don't return anything.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @03:25AM (1 child)
But he heard it on Democrat Underground!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @04:03AM
The sad fact is he's been lied to by those providing him his news, but he does not realize they have been lying to him for their own personal gain.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @12:34AM (7 children)
#JusticeForCarolyn
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @03:00AM (6 children)
A single tweet does not evidence make.
A single tweet could be considered an accusation -- but an accusation is not evidence.
And all that comes up from googling that is a single tweet making an unsupported accusation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @04:32AM (5 children)
Yeah, I could tweet:
#The Moon is made of Green Cheese
but doing so would not make it true.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @05:59AM (3 children)
#JusticeForCarolyn it's all sorta true.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @01:55PM (2 children)
And how do you know this is "sorta" true? The tweet simply makes an unsupported accusation, with nothing (not even a link to anything) to support the accusation. You could tweet tomorrow that the queen of england murdered princess diana, but doing so would make that accusation no more true than this one is.
Where is your evidence showing that the tweet is true? No evidence, no truth, just an accusation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @06:10PM (1 child)
Or, you could tweet that the cold case of the death of a Joe Scarbourough intern should be re-opened, and that is simply an unsupported accusation by a very stupid and fragile IMPOTUS. Don't get sarcasm, eh? Not too bright, eh? Conservative, then?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @07:48PM
Indeed it was an accusation without evidence, never said it was supported in any way. And it was in poor taste as well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @06:00AM
#JusticeForCarolyn It's all sorta true.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @03:54AM (6 children)
"Please post your evidence that the president is a child molester."
Well, I don't have any evidence that the President is a child molester (though it wouldn't surprise me, frankly), but conservatives really did like Roy Moore, and he arguably was a child molester.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @04:43AM (5 children)
Which simply means you have an opinion, and you are entitled to whatever opinion makes you happy. But an opinion should be presented as just that, an opinion, not as a statement of fact.
Yet the post that started this subthread was presenting an opinion as if it were a fact.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @06:07AM (2 children)
Fuck your facts, you Trumper! We have our own facts, we make reality, not just follow after it, as the W. Bush admin did! Some things about Republicans does not change! And the Alternative truth of Kelly Annie and Sarah Huckabee, and Ronna Romney McDaniel, and "Dick" Liz Cheney, and Meghan McCain, and all the other daughters of Repbulicans milking the system, instead of their own fertile tits (Kayleigh McEnany had her's removed, to not interfere with her service of evil), is still in our pockets! Alternative Truth! Not truth, but still true! Sort of. Presenting truth, as if it were opinion. I wonder what you even think truth is?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @04:12AM (1 child)
Translation: you have no evidence, just a bunch of unsupported accusations that you keep throwing around.
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @04:18AM
The GP AC is just repeating the opinions he has been spoonfed by his CNN handlers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @03:16PM (1 child)
"Which simply means you have an opinion, and you are entitled to whatever opinion makes you happy. But an opinion should be presented as just that, an opinion, not as a statement of fact."
Oh, I gave you a fact alright (which you conveniently ignored). The fact is that an alarming number of "conservatives" voted for Roy Moore, who is evidently a child molester.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @04:15AM
Because people voting for Roy Moore appears completely unrelated to Trump.
Please state your reasoning for how people voting for Roy Moore in any way links Trump to being a child molester?