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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, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Saturday May 30 2020, @12:29AM (4 children)
178 comments?
This'll be civilised.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @12:54AM (2 children)
At this point due to TMB's idiocy we are down to
SN better not ban my IP! That would be the ultimate censorship! Or TMB can admit he is a hypocrite that drops his ideology when it becomes inconvenient, and that Twitter should be able to do the same things as SN.
(Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Saturday May 30 2020, @06:27PM (1 child)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @04:29PM
My personal favorite is the political spams where the message is hardly tweaked yet never gets modded spam. So arbitrary these spam rules.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2020, @07:59AM
In your dreams, zombie! We will upset the alt-right police car, set it on fire, and sell it on ebay!