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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 Monday June 01 2020, @06:45AM (1 child)
How come that being called spaghetti eater or mafioso is no prob with me?
Yes it qualifies who speaks, but he has the right to self qualify.
The fact is, I know who I am and I know what I do, and no vocal emission is going to change that. Plus, it is objectively TRUE that Italians have brought bad habits around. Yes they are a bit of a diversion for the older jewish secret society and mafia. In fact, if you look at historical or even current mafia dons surnames (generic words or geographic words) and looks, you see some patterns emerge. But you cannot blame others when the phenomenon is rooted in your country and in your people, so it's our thing (literal for cosa nostra).
So yes my people is noisy bullying and often dangerous. Meanwhile niggers and fags are all angelic victims of the bad white man. Again, one should look at what kind of white we are speaking of, if the police officers belong to certain fraternities and whether they have a crucifix or something else on the neck. It MAY BE that a certain group is playing on both sides, since the Soros behind social justice movement is not doing it for making money (why? because he literally declared "all I do is to make money no other reason", and the Romans who said EXCUSATIO NON PETITA ACCUSATIO MANIFESTA were quite insightful)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2020, @07:52AM
Opus Dei, and anti-semitic? Does Pius the X have anything to say to you? Abstinence makes the Church grow Fondlers, I always say! Steve Bannon converted to Catholicism, for all the altar boy sex!