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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: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2020, @08:35PM (2 children)
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Reality does not care that you were led to imagine things and it is not your fault. Reality just happens to you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @03:09AM (1 child)
I love how they have you so programmed that you cannot even imagine that a program like "unemployment" could exist for a time like this.
You've become a fascist. You live to struggle. If you're not struggling for the boss' profits, against the hated enemy, you wouldn't know what to do with yourself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @03:29AM
And you have been programmed to think that money can be created out of thin air without repercussions.
Your life aspirations may only extend to lapping up that sweet $600+UC for as long as it lasts, but I am saving up so that at some point I can retire. That free money is devaluing all our savings, and it is happened because of a stupid Chicken Little panic and grand government fuckup.