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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

@JackPosobiec

BREAKING: President Trump to sign Executive Order on Social Media Censorship

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: braking; censorbusting; censorship; internet; section230; socialmedia; technotyranny; trump; trumpeo; trumpsocialmedia; trumptwitter; twitter
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To: CIB-173RDABN

It’s not an order to the business. It will be an order to the bureaucracy to take some action targeting Twitter, et al.

A minefield, but Dems would do it anyway next time they’re in charge.


41 posted on 05/27/2020 4:55:27 PM PDT by jjotto (“Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.”)
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To: kosciusko51

I bet it will target twitter... i.e ‘Companies with x thousand employee’s’ that’s how they usually target social media companies because they’re so big and also revenue is another one i.e revenues of x billion.


42 posted on 05/27/2020 4:55:31 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: Responsibility2nd

We’ll see. I think it will take legislation & that might be difficult to pass & make stick.


43 posted on 05/27/2020 4:56:07 PM PDT by Reily
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To: RandFan

Yay!


44 posted on 05/27/2020 4:56:22 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: RandFan

I hope you are correct, and that the order is not overly broad.


45 posted on 05/27/2020 4:56:55 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: spacejunkie2001

Remove the FCC Fair Harbor Provisions. They are not common carriers if they police content judged to be legal speech


46 posted on 05/27/2020 4:57:04 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: nwrep
Twitter will be banned from any content labeling.

Facebook will be banned from any banning attempts.

And if such an Executive Order is issued both will ignore it. And win in court.

47 posted on 05/27/2020 4:57:47 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Responsibility2nd

See tagline. For many months I have been outlining how Hillary will win in November. Part of the plan has always involved the unregulated abuses of Twitter and Facebook.

Twitter is trying to fact check the president? Of course they are. That is just one step closer to their ultimate goal which is banning him. Fortunately for us, this is backfiring in their faces.


48 posted on 05/27/2020 4:57:52 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Click my screen name for an analysis on how HIllary wins next November.)
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To: RandFan

One of the reasons for waiting so long might be to get the courts more on his side.


49 posted on 05/27/2020 4:58:23 PM PDT by BobL
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To: RandFan

Gab is like MeWe. It’s a desert, unfortunately.


50 posted on 05/27/2020 4:59:00 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: RandFan

“sign Executive Order on Social Media Censorship”
Vs. False pretenses, and misappropriation by deceit (false advertising as many of the commercials on sports)


51 posted on 05/27/2020 4:59:28 PM PDT by Varsity Flight (QE 2020. All Quiet on the Western Front)
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To: Singermom; RandFan; Reily; DiogenesLamp
I heard Gov. Huckabee today on Outnumbered and he said social media should work like phone lines. They should provide the lines (platforms) and let the people say what they want.

So what that means is the taxpayers will have to buy Twitter, Facebook and YouTube (at least).

Imposing those restrictions would clearly be a taking by government because it would destroy their businesses.

Then we'll have federal government owned sites where each post and comment will be spammed with keto diet tips, Pepe memes, Dr. Zev's hydroxy cure and all manner of trolling - and the government won't be able to do a thing about it because of the first amendment.

Sounds great Huck, and all with our tax dollars.

52 posted on 05/27/2020 4:59:38 PM PDT by semimojo
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To: RandFan

Does an EO have any real teeth for privately owned companys?


53 posted on 05/27/2020 5:00:48 PM PDT by Bommer (I'm a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

“Those protections were enacted by Congress, so they can only be removed by Congress”

Or by executive order. Congress has to override that with a 2/3 vote.

Also, he can utterly delegitimize them by forbidding any executive branch office to have a FB or Twitter account, or from accessing those sites on government computers or phones. No NASA facebook, no CIA twitter, no US Navy, DOD, HHS, SEC, FCC, no USDA, no USFS, no BLM, etc etc. He can forbid the executive branch from any expenditures with companies that censor based on politics. So no Google and Facebook information services... etc etc.

He has more power than you think.


54 posted on 05/27/2020 5:01:12 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Jim Robinson
Well, this should get real interesting.

I'm half tempted to find an illegal live CNN stream on the interwebs just to watch their heads explode but nah, I've more productive things to do. :-)

55 posted on 05/27/2020 5:01:33 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: DesertRhino

“He can declare their activities on behalf of China to be a national emergency and raise holy hell. Truman did this to steel mills in the 50s.”

By all that is true he should do that. There is truth that China is lurking at the back of a lot of this.


56 posted on 05/27/2020 5:02:22 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: Husker24
I honestly don’t see what an executive order can accomplish in this venue.

Maybe require the FCC to come down hard on them.

57 posted on 05/27/2020 5:02:32 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Bommer

Vs. False pretenses, and misappropriation by deceit


58 posted on 05/27/2020 5:02:34 PM PDT by Varsity Flight (QE 2020. All Quiet on the Western Front)
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To: DesertRhino
Or by executive order. Congress has to override that with a 2/3 vote.

Say what?

59 posted on 05/27/2020 5:03:26 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: kosciusko51
"There may be unintended consequences that affect this site."

I think the clear difference is that FR does not pretend to be an open unbiased platform.

the forum rules are clearly stated

60 posted on 05/27/2020 5:04:12 PM PDT by KTM rider ( .......than to post and remove all doubt)
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