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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I’ll need to see more evidence that this is constitutional, but I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt for now. I still think it’s wrong even if it’s legal through loopholes though.
“The FCC has no jurisdiction over cable TV or over the internet, only over broadcast TV and radio. “
Not correct at all. FCC has jurisdiction over cable TV and internet.
Now aren't you little miss sunshine?
Trump has a lot of power to f*** them up if he chooses to use it. The Justice Department can launch an anti-trust investigation against them and give them a reaming. The IRS can audit their books. The FEC needs to be involved here.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
The preamble is important - No porn for kids but the net is the new town square for free speech.
TH54
Section 230:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
Cut and paste is a nightmare but here's your source.
As I've often said, the inability to moderate what happens on their platforms would destroy the user experience and drive away advertisers.
Imagine if they couldn't control spam, trolls, competitors who were only interested in disruption and who knows what else.
You're demanding an environment with no standards other than what the law prohibits.
Imagine every Twitter thread filled with keto diet pitches. Or pictures of aborted fetuses inserted into every Facebook conversation.
How long before the users and then the advertisers flee?
It sounds good to say no censorship but people who say that haven't thought it through in the context of social media.
If history is a guide you'll come up with some undefinable, arbitrary standard that at the end of the day will have to be mediated by a government commissar, but that's just special pleading.
“They are a public utility. An e-utility.”
Only if you wish it so.
By law they are not.
Best argument for your position you have ever articulated. I’ll have to consider it further before responding.
“He can direct the FCC to declare that any social media that engages in editorial action is a publisher and not a platform, immediately exposing all of Big Tech to liquidation-level legal action as they gain secondary liability for every crime and tort committed where the platform was used in some way.”
Their exemption is in the law, not FCC regulation.
The FCC, and by extension the Executive, has no authority to change the law unilaterally.
Anyone here....shouldn’t be using FB...at all.
If they are utilities and they are media they have to follow the media laws they’ve been avoiding this forever
What part of “private company” do you not understand? Do you honestly think this is a good idea?
“I’ll need to see more evidence that this is constitutional”
Neither Twitter or Facebook are licensed or regulated by the FCC.
However, they are protected by Section 230 of the CDA. And that’s Law.
And absent new law, they are not subject to regulation.
He’s not changing the law. He’s simply directing the agency to acknowledge the reality of the situation, that Twitter is not a platform but a publisher due to its editorial activities.
Amazing how all of a sudden conservatives are fans of big, regulatory government. Hope the 30 pieces of silver is worth it.
That’s the thing.
They are NOT protected by CDA 230.
Those protections forbid things like the fact check they applied to Trump’s tweets.
They blew it. Unrecoverable. They are now by definition NOT a platform... and therefore have no viable business model moving forward.
So they have to be both? I’m not seeing Twitter as being a utility. As someone else on this thread said, the state would have to own them for there to be ‘equal rights’.
“He’s not changing the law.”
The law specifically classifies them as a platform.
Just because you define them to be a public utility doesn’t make them one. They are a private company. You don’t like their rules? Then start a competitor.
Remember the good old days when conservatives were in favor of dismantling the regulatory state and letting freedom blossom through competition in the market? Yeah, me too.
One thing I’ve learned about being on political forums for over 20 years, either side will take what they can when it helps them and bash it when it helps the other side.
Complete hypocrites. In fact, you could say all of life works that way.
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