HUGE! Trump White House Implements Executive Order on Online Censorship: Prevents Tech Giants from Altering Users’ Free Speech

thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 7/29/20 | Jim Hoft

[Lurking Libertarian]

Free Republic does not have protection under under Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1996. Google does. Your comparison is stupid and uninformed.

Of course FR is protected under section 230. All websites with comments are. Without section 230, FR could not survive one day.

[stig]

I have, yet another, dumb question: Can someone please explain how any President could have this kind of authority, legitimately?

Marsh v. Alabama
Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins

President Trump has a reasonable argument that because the websites are open to the general public though owned by a private company. The company may not abridge the Free Speech rights of the users.

This is likely a prelude to removing protections these companies have enjoyed and treating them like publishers. If they admit they are not the public square and can exercise control over the content they would be admitting they are publishers. They don't want that so it forces the companies' hand so to speak. It also gets the message out to the general public that they are likely getting information that's filtered by these companies. The websites they control are not the free expression sites they claim to be.

[robowombat]

I really get tired of Jim Hoff’s ‘Huge’ for every article.

[Leaning Right]

> Google is a PUBLIC company. Big difference. <

Thanks for that info.

[conservative98]

President Trump promotes free speech https://t.co/7HAJ8gclvH— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) July 30, 2020

[mbrfl]

Good answer, Mr. Rogers.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I can’t wait to hear what Mark says about this. I listen to him every day on podcast, I drive a truck for a living and I listen to the whole 3 hour show every day, he is phenomenal, the guy absolutely tells it like it is. My Aunt is a Trump hater who lives in the suburbs and said she is voting for Biden, so I told her to watch Levins show when he had Stanley Kurtz on about how Biden is going to basically turn the suburbs into the ghettos and now she is freakin out lol lol. THAT story more than anything is a huge game changer, liberals don’t care about anything until it bites them in the ass.