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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: 2) by Bot on Friday May 29 2020, @09:21PM (11 children)
>baking a wedding cake for gays is insulting.
in case it is misread, I said "insulting" and not "offensive", and I said "baking" and not "asking to bake", in practice it is the baker who insults his own religion.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2020, @09:28PM (10 children)
Go on, let your prejudice out. Don't hold back now. Got any true feelings on people from specific countries? Perhaps Somalians? Or Cambodians? Maybe the Chinese right now?
How about women? What is their purpose here on Earth? Do you think it would be better if they stayed at home to care for kids, or participated in the workforce?
Since you are a bot I'll finish with "sudo make me a good sandwich"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @12:40AM
Ferkin Dagos!
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday May 31 2020, @10:30AM (4 children)
Mom said not to reply to AC dirty submonkeys.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @04:15PM (3 children)
Yet you replied twice, 2nd time with more stupid than usual. Did someone spill coffee on your fatherboard??
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday May 31 2020, @09:05PM (2 children)
Actually the second comment is meant for another poster. Difficult to tell subhumans apart.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @09:55PM (1 child)
Well if you weren't a stupid bot you'd probably be better at such complex tasks. Time for an upgrade? Simple hierarchical threads should be easier for a bot. Go do some captcha training or something.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2020, @07:53AM
Catholic Italian bot. No Hierarchial threads, just the Pontifex Maximus, ad Glorificum Holem MDC.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday May 31 2020, @10:51AM (3 children)
LOL then how does your finely trained logic mind deals with the fact that I don't go snuffing out faggots in the name of the Bible, else I would probably have been caught already?
Answer, because you didn't remember all of the scripture?
Mt 19:
7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
The cake with some bible on it would REMIND how grave some behavior was considered. When offspring was LITERALLY wealth, homosexuality was LITERALLY death. How do you punish who promote death, huh? But ofc judging from the modern time after being throughly imbibed with anti believer propaganda might justify your position.
Yeah saturday is the seventh day, sunday is the first day, monday is the second day of the week. Sun 1st moon 2nd. Makes sense to celebrate on the day Jesus proved to be the Son? Yes. Can you go to mass on Saturday instead? yes too. No probs here, you might want an Adventist for this.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @08:49PM (2 children)
Is this why you idiots keep saying you and people like Trump are not racist? Unless they literally murder someone they can't be rzcist?
Daaaamn you're fucked in the head.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday May 31 2020, @09:10PM (1 child)
Trump is pro Israel and Israel is not merely racist, but based on racism. I am not referring to apartheid towards arabs, I am referring to antisemitism as the basis for their identity.
So I guess Trump is hyper-racist. You progs, are classists, so morally undistinguishable from racists. Your very own comments leaks your classism.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2020, @01:17AM
You're down to ad-homs, good times.