Posted on 05/27/2020 9:56:09 AM PDT by Zenyatta
President Trump said Wednesday that he will “strongly regulate” or even “close down” social media platforms, one day after Twitter flagged two of his posts.
The president made the vow on Twitter after the social media platform added a message to the tweets that linked to a page disputing the accuracy of his posts.
Trump and other conservatives argue that social media is censuring or silencing their messages.
Read more “Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices,” Trump said over two tweets Wednesday morning. “We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can’t let a more sophisticated version of that happen again.”
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Don't do that, Mr. President. Twitter censoring comments is bad enough, totalitarian government is far worse. Leftwing politicians would love to be able to turn off Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
Trump has been threatening Twitter since forever, but they keep moving the goalposts ever so slightly into the direction of unfettered censorship. Mere words aren’t going to correct the problem of Twitter and Facebook.
“President Trump said Wednesday that he will “strongly regulate” or even “close down” social media platforms, one day after Twitter flagged two of his posts.”
NO, Big Media, he didn’t.
(See how they just put quotes around a few words?)
Here is what he said, you lying enemy Hussein Heads:
Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can’t let a more sophisticated version of that happen again. Just like we can’t let large scale Mail-In Ballots take root in our Country. It would be a free for all on cheating, forgery and the theft of Ballots. Whoever cheated the most would win. Likewise, Social Media. Clean up your act, NOW!!!!
Until our domestic enemies BEGIN paying for their crimes against America, we ALL and Trump and his family are TARGETS in 2025.
And enough of this, “We don’t prosecute former presidents/administrations”, Rush. Why do you think Rats in 2025 or 2029 will NOT do exactly that?????
“Regulate media”
Nope. Facebook and Twitter and Youtube are already regulating media despite their claims of being common carriers and not responsible for content on their sites.
They want it “both ways”. This is just holding them accountable for their editorial censorship while denying any liability for content.
See post #9
It is like the backlash about Bathroom Bills that are actually responsive legislation to legislation that was forced on the public by backroom homofascists. “Why are we even debating who should be permitted to go into the women’s room, we have more important things to attend to!” Why indeed. Power grabs.
It would be well within President Trump’s powers to issue an Executive Order stating that websites and social media platforms must adhere to policies that protect and promote Conservative opinions.
Social media sites have already claimed they are working on constructing a “social score” for the public just as they have financial scores. Your politics will be used against you.
In California voting for Prop 8 was enough to get the founder of Mozilla fired.
I’m no fan of government regulations. These big tech platforms have become so huge and important to daily communications that they’ve essentially become “public utilities” without the regulations. Like all other “public utilities”, they should become “regulated monopolies”. Biased censorship should be banned from them.
Of course, the POTUS could just move his twitter account, and all the millions of followers, over to something like GAB.
Don’t know if that would do twitter in, but it would likely hurt em.
Bongino is talking about this today...
“It would be well within President Trump’s powers to issue an Executive Order stating that websites and social media platforms must adhere to policies that protect and promote Conservative opinions.”
Its my understanding that an EO is only enforceable on government agencies. For public and private it would be merely a suggestion.
“For public and private it would be merely a suggestion.”
President Trump has a very strong power of suggestion with Executive Orders. Websites and social media would have no choice but to comply and protect the voices of Conservatives.
Fight the censoring of truth, or perish. Trump you’ve waited way past the time this should be done. Are you real or are you entertainment?
Can’t wait to hear the discussion when President Ocasio-Cortez issues the decree to close down Free Republic for censoring liberal voices.
Twitter is not a common carrier-——it is a publicly-held company subject to the laws of the SEC.
TWITTERS 2013 PROSPECTUS filed with the SEC
LINK-—https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312513390321/d564001ds1.htm
Exactly, that's the root of the issue right there. If they want to censor, they have to assume liability for content, but like you said, they want it both ways. Just like RIAA and so on, who will argue either that you have a license to their content, or ownership, whichever works to their advantage in a given case.
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