Posted on 05/27/2020 4:37:25 PM PDT by RandFan
Yesterday I was posting a comment at an aol site regarding President Trump. I made a comment about Trump and HCQ and the fact that Fauci never mentions the importance of taking zinc with HCQ as per recommendation from Dr. Zelenko. I also mentioned his support of Gilead Science’s drug Remdesivir which is not showing major success. Then I wrote a final sentence about how this appears to be a war over whether a successful low cost early treatment will succeed versus the push by Big Pharma for costly drugs and vaccines. And that this will end as a fight between drug and vaccine companies versus other large business interests that want the economy to open up. I immediately got a notice that I had a better chance of being posted if I refrained from controversial (I think that was the word)language in my post. So I removed the last sentence that included the word Big Pharma and my comment was posted.
Then a few posts down where someone else commented about someone’s censorship complaint I started to write about how I had just been warned because I had written a sentence in which I had referred to pharmaceutical enterprises by a commonly used term beginning with a B and a P, and again I was given a notice about watching my language if I wanted to be posted. The whole thread had included some really nasty comments about and descriptions of unfavored political individuals. The person who triggered my second attempt to post was complaining that they were tired of censorship and might quite AOL sites altogether. This followed a complaint by someone who said their comment had just been removed.
You, and everyone else who has had this experience, should save these interactions/posts/moderator comments and send them to the AG, Trump, and those news people you trust, etc. They need documentation to fight this.
It’s eerie how prescient your predictions are, R2...
COVID hasn’t killed anywhere near the forecasts we were given, and it is peanuts compared to say deaths by heart disease.
COVID also did not magically cause unemployment. Unemployment was caused intentionally by POTUS and the governors insanely shutting down the entire country, never done before, in response to a minor pandemic.
Sad if people actually think that ANYTHING is close to as bad as totalitarian government.
Twitter doesn’t MAKE you do ANYTHING. Totalitarian government will gladly steal, destroy and kill if they want.
If you think the feds are tour friend, you are sadly mistaken. That is why we have a Constitution to limit the potentially DEADLY federal government.
Who cares?
Good Idea. It's worse than I imagined.
Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship
Sec. 2. Protections Against Online Censorship. (a) It is the policy of the United States to foster clear ground rules promoting free and open debate on the internet. Prominent among the ground rules governing that debate is the immunity from liability created by section 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act (section 230(c)). 47 U.S.C. 230(c).
Sec. 3. Protecting Federal Taxpayer Dollars from Financing Online Platforms That Restrict Free Speech. (a) The head of each executive department and agency (agency) shall review its agency's Federal spending on advertising and marketing paid to online platforms.
Sec. 4. Federal Review of Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices. (a) It is the policy of the United States that large online platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, as the critical means of promoting the free flow of speech and ideas today, should not restrict protected speech.
Sec. 5. State Review of Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices and Anti-Discrimination Laws. (a) The Attorney General shall establish a working group regarding the potential enforcement of State statutes that prohibit online platforms from engaging in unfair or deceptive acts or practices.
Utterly unconstitutional and based on unconstitutional and invalid federal law, all of which has no constitutional authority Nowhere does the Constitution authorize the feds to regulate private individual or private company behavior, ESPECIALLY speech.
Instead of curtailing the already massively unconstitutional federal government and acts, Trump is unwittingly expanding such unconstitutional power of the feds into an even greater totalitain power.
This is not the road to making America great again. This is the road to destroying America and the road to ruin.
It is not a constitutional issue, you need to wise up. Congress wrote legislation defining how social media should be protected from liability by defining them as none publishers, all Trump is doing is saying when they censor content, they have become publishers and subject to liability.
Dude, that entire section has ZERO actual real world effect, it is just a statement of policy, and you’ve construed it as a totalitarian nightmare.
You are either not seeing this clearly, or not thinking clearly.
That EFF document is garbage written by a very young person who is ignorant of the court ruling history.
That is correct! It defines the executive power, and an executive order is the instantiation of that power.
This is all 100% legit and legal.
Wake up and smell the riots. The USA has not had anything resembling the Rule of Law since the day the US Senate decided it was OK that Bill Clinton lied under oath in court.
An unconstitutional executive order is certainly not legit and legal. It should be rejected and nullified.
It’s perfectly constitutional and proper as well, and you are simply obstinately sticking to a dramatic misreading of it.
You tell me what part or clause of the Constitution authorizes the feds to fund private enterprise and then use that to control private individuals and private enterprise.
You’re on the wrong side of the argument here.
I don’t even know what you’re talking about any longer.
The legislature authorizes executive powers.
If you’ve a Constitutional argument the proper time is in court, or at the time the legislation is drafted.
Raising it now is just being objectionable for the sake of objecting. It’s an entirely rhetorical argument detached from the reality of the situation.
You don’t know what I’m talking about because you think if the Constitution doesn’t forbid it, then it’s a green light for the feds. No, that’s how dictatorship governments are set up.
Rethink your Thought-O-Meter, learn the presumptions of the Constitution, read the Declaration of Independence (the American concept of government), the Constitution (the American creation of government), and the Federalist papers and then get back to me.
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