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!!!!
“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.
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...
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.
Trump could just ditch Twitter.
Don’t just talk. Do it.
The ability exists to drop all packets to/from an entity like twitter at the main switches.
The NSA already has control of them...not just a room with a splitter forwarding a copy of all packets.
Give them a taste of what happened in the old sci-fi film “The Day The Earth Stood Still” and drop all their packets for an hour as a warning.
Let them fight in the courts, they will not prevail...and discovery would be a delight to watch on live TV :-)
Dear Mr President, when RBG bites the dust, suspend the house and senate, as is your right under the constitution, and appoint someone to replace her that would be the progressive/communists worst nightmare. And use the blackmail info that the deep state has been using on Roberts and replace him at the same time.
Use the blackmail info that is surely in the NSA database to
reign in congress....the amount of dirt on them must be staggering.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation writes: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
47 U.S.C. § 230, a Provision of the Communication Decency Act
Tucked inside the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 is one of the most valuable tools for protecting freedom of expression and innovation on the Internet: Section 230.
This comes somewhat as a surprise, since the original purpose of the legislation was to restrict free speech on the Internet. The Internet community as a whole objected strongly to the Communications Decency Act, and with EFF's help, the anti-free speech provisions were struck down by the Supreme Court. But thankfully, CDA 230 remains and in the years since has far outshone the rest of the law. "Section 230 says that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider" (47 U.S.C. § 230).
In other words, online intermediaries that host or republish speech are protected against a range of laws that might otherwise be used to hold them legally responsible for what others say and do. The protected intermediaries include not only regular Internet Service Providers (ISPs), but also a range of "interactive computer service providers," including basically any online service that publishes third-party content.
Though there are important exceptions for certain criminal and intellectual property-based claims, CDA 230 creates a broad protection that has allowed innovation and free speech online to flourish."
See how slick this statement is? I agree with this statement and I can easily PROVE it and FACT CHECK it. This moron just let a simple statement stand on its own because he knows full well that there are most who will take this by the left's biased view that conservatives are paranoid and want to actually silence them. It is the power of propaganda and projection.
Twitter would be less that 1/3 what it is without Trump. Don’t think they’re THAT stupid.
Under what authority? I voted for Trump in 2016 because he promised us a return to small government. If I wanted to live in a country where the government censors social media I would have moved to China or North Korea.
We have the vast majority of small business owners and entrepreneurs on our side. If Facebook and Twitter are censoring conservative voices why don’t we just found our own conservative social media the way we did with Conservapedia when Wikipedia went full libtard on us? Let the liberal losers have Facebook and Twitter.
The problem with handing government too much power is it can and will be used against you when your opponents gain power. If Trump can shut down or force the liberal social media sites to host conservative voices what’s to stop a future Demonrat president from doing the same to FR to “defend liberal voices”?