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To: Jim W N

I read the entire EO. Section 230 gives these social media platforms exemption from liability for anything posted on their platforms, because they are neutral, and a valuable public service is performed by them facilitating free and open discourse. The EO provides that if they start mixing into the discourse, censoring opinions they don’t like, posting fact-check notices selectively, etc., they lose the exemption conferred upon them by Section 230.

The courts may restrict this EO, and rule that they only lose this exemption with regards to the opinions that they post, or the posters that they censor.

But nothing that I read in the EO further punishes the platform owners for interfering, other than getting no more federal ad money, and having the government snooping around to see if they’re doing something to censor viewpoints via algorithms. It’s all about fairness in managing a public forum, and exemption from liability so long as they are fair.


67 posted on 06/02/2020 4:54:05 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Again, which specific power is enumerated in the Constitution that gives the feds the power to interfere with private individuals or corporations? You can’t find it because it’s not there.

Nowhere does the Constitution give the feds this massive sweep of power.

The feds are now a mostly unconstitutional, and thus, mostly illegal totalitarian power. America’s greatest threat is not China or the Man in the Moon. America’s and American’s greatest threat to their freedom and peaceful way of life is their own massive $4 trillion federal government.


68 posted on 06/02/2020 5:47:18 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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