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BREAKING: President Trump to sign Executive Order on Social Media Censorship
Twitter ^ | 27 May 2020 | Jack Posobiec

Posted on 05/27/2020 4:37:25 PM PDT by RandFan

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To: Jim W N

You may willingly and voluntarily surrender your rights and your freedoms. You may meekly hide in a corner while Twitter determines what you can and cannot say in the public domain. But. Speaking on my behalf and other conservatives, you can go to hell.


221 posted on 05/27/2020 7:11:48 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Click my screen name for an analysis on how HIllary wins next November.)
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To: Jim W N

“The Federal Government cannot tell private business including social media what to do.”

So why are car companies making hospital ventilators?


222 posted on 05/27/2020 7:12:45 PM PDT by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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To: Responsibility2nd

They aren’t even news agencies, they’re privately run public forums. You better cheer on when a D is prez and starts running the EO’s against guns or free speech or whatever.


223 posted on 05/27/2020 7:13:07 PM PDT by Monty22002
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To: Responsibility2nd

Great. Bye bye freedom and free enterprise. Hello totalitarian dictatorship government.

You can go to hell.


224 posted on 05/27/2020 7:13:13 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Meatspace; semimojo
Great move. Require that all social media platforms and websites permit Conservative Viewpoints.

Agree with you here.

225 posted on 05/27/2020 7:14:01 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DesertRhino

He can direct the FCC to declare that any social media that engages in editorial action is a publisher and not a platform, immediately exposing all of Big Tech to liquidation-level legal action as they gain secondary liability for every crime and tort committed where the platform was used in some way.

Which includes things like giving them criminal liability for facilitating child trafficking networks that communicate over DMs.


226 posted on 05/27/2020 7:14:27 PM PDT by thoughtomator (here comes the switch to Hillary)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Sign up on DU and spouse your views. Get banned. Demand EO to allow it. Same thing. Privately run forums should NOT be subject to EO’s or congress running their companies.


227 posted on 05/27/2020 7:14:56 PM PDT by Monty22002
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To: Mariner

>> But MSM owns jack.

True, I don’t normally frame it that way.

ATT & Comcast are licensed telecom operators

CNN is ATT
NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, and Axios are Comcast


228 posted on 05/27/2020 7:16:12 PM PDT by Gene Eric ( Don't be a statist!)
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To: Monty22002
This is a tough one. These are private companies that in theory should be able to delete or ban him at will. No different than FR.

Very different from FR. They have billions of users and represent a huge fraction of the American populace. They have enormous sway with the public and to allow them to censor content they don't like is a deadly threat to the survival of our system of governance.

These people are like phone companies and they should be required to carry all traffic, just like phone companies are required to carry.

229 posted on 05/27/2020 7:16:31 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Monty22002

You are very incorrect.

Twitter/FB and other Big Tech social media enterprises are 100% utterly dependent on being treated as “platforms” and not “publishers” under CDA Section 230.

Their business models absolutely depend on this protection, otherwise they get sued to death instantly.

This liability protection comes with an obligation of neutrality towards content... an obligation breached six ways from Sunday.


230 posted on 05/27/2020 7:16:45 PM PDT by thoughtomator (here comes the switch to Hillary)
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To: Helicondelta

Maybe apples and oranges if there’s some kind of valid temporary emergency powers invoked that I haven’t herd about that allow the feds to tell car companies what to do if that’s what happened.

Trump doesn’t have totalitarian power. Not legitimately or constitutionally.

I hope this is more “fake news”.


231 posted on 05/27/2020 7:17:00 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Monty22002

You just don’t get it.


232 posted on 05/27/2020 7:17:31 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Monty22002

FR doesn’t require a liability shield as the site is not used as a method of planning or carrying out liability-generating activity.

FB/Twitter are used as such, every single day, countless times.


233 posted on 05/27/2020 7:19:00 PM PDT by thoughtomator (here comes the switch to Hillary)
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To: Jim W N

Trump does have this power and it’s not totalitarian at all but built into the system that those companies rely on to operate in the first place. They lobbied for this arrangement and paid good money for it!


234 posted on 05/27/2020 7:20:02 PM PDT by thoughtomator (here comes the switch to Hillary)
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To: thoughtomator

Well, I can at least give you credit for trying to give a reasoned answer. I don’t like the idea still that an EO, and EMERGENCY, should be based on a fact check link. Is it unfair, sure. But I still believe private internet companies should have the say in what goes on their site.


235 posted on 05/27/2020 7:21:20 PM PDT by Monty22002
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To: thoughtomator

So you’re saying any president can shut down these companies on any whim? That’s kinda anti-American to me, but I guess if they signed up for it..


236 posted on 05/27/2020 7:25:38 PM PDT by Monty22002
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To: Monty22002

They literally wanted this arrangement because they expected to be able to manipulate election outcomes to the point where they could control the regulatory outcomes as well.

This is karmic retribution on an epic scale... savor it.


237 posted on 05/27/2020 7:28:16 PM PDT by thoughtomator (here comes the switch to Hillary)
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To: DesertRhino; semimojo
He can declare their activities on behalf of China to be a national emergency and raise holy hell.

And there is a lot of truth in this. Google does what China tells it to do. I have no doubt that facist book and twitter will also Kow Tow if China demands it.

Allowing private censorship of speech just gets you hidden government censorship of speech.

238 posted on 05/27/2020 7:30:01 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: lodi90

Gab was deplatformed by hostile providers illegally.

And they were back on the air in a week with a different hosting provider.

They should have sued. But I guess they violated agreements they signed with those who were hosting them, and it’s was sufficiently demonstrable that they decided not to.

They remain online and you can go there and post to your hearts content.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)


239 posted on 05/27/2020 7:30:25 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Jim W N

“if there’s some kind of valid temporary emergency powers invoked that I haven’t herd about”

Trump orders General Motors to make ventilators under Defense Production Act

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/trump-orders-general-motors-to-make-ventilators-under-defense-production-act.html

Regulating twitter is so much easier than making a car company produce ventilators.


240 posted on 05/27/2020 7:30:42 PM PDT by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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