Legal and tech policy experts say Trump's draft executive order cracking down on social-media compan

[tulc]

full title:

Legal and tech policy experts say Trump's draft executive order cracking down on social-media companies is dead on arrival

Legal and tech policy experts say Trump's draft executive order cracking down on social-media companies is dead on arrival

• President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order seeking to crack down on social media companies after Twitter took the rare step this week of adding fact-checking labels to two of his tweets.
• A draft of the order obtained by Business Insider shows Trump is mainly attempting to empower federal regulators to re-interpret and amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to make it more difficult for tech companies to moderate content on their platforms.
• It would direct the FCC and FTC to change the way Section 230 is interpreted, regulated, and applied, and it would allow for users to complain if they think the companies are acting in a way that goes against their terms of service.
• Legal and tech policy experts told Business Insider that some sections of the draft executive order are not legal at all and other parts would require government agencies to throw out years of judicial interpretation of Section 230.
• "This is not how the Constitution works," said Ashkhen Kazaryan, the director of civil liberties at libertarian technology policy think tank Tech Freedom. "The First Amendment protects Twitter from Trump, it does not protect Trump from Twitter."

tulc(thought this was interesting)

 

[HannahT]

Here is the Executive Order in Question.

 

[Searching2020]

This executive order will do exactly what it was meant to do. Distract the country and the media from how badly Trump has handled the coronavirus pandemic. It's all smoke and mirrors. Don't falll for it.

 

[The Barbarian]

This executive order will do exactly what it was meant to do. Distract the country and the media from how badly Trump has handled the coronavirus pandemic. It's all smoke and mirrors. Don't falll for it.

Yes. It's mainly to toss a little red meat to his fans. This may have initially been a tantrum, but by now, his lawyers surely have showed him that he has no power to rescind the First Amendment.

 

[Searching2020]

Yes. It's mainly to toss a little red meat to his fans. This may have initially been a tantrum, but by now, his lawyers surely have showed him that he has no power to rescind the First Amendment.

Yeah. The same as when he threatened to 'overrule' governors on reopening churches. It's all about November.

 

[The Barbarian]

Yeah. The same as when he threatened to 'overrule' governors on reopening churches. It's all about November.

Problem for him is, his followers aren't as dumb as he thinks they are. They are starting to notice that he's all talk and no action.

 

[Searching2020]

Problem for him is, his followers aren't as dumb as he thinks they are. They are starting to notice that he's all talk and no action.

We can only hope!