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.
Which includes things like giving them criminal liability for facilitating child trafficking networks that communicate over DMs.
“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.
Perfect exactly and well stated that is the issue these companies can’t have it both ways be a public media platform and yet not be held to any kind of minimal regulation