Trump says he’ll veto defense bill unless Section 230 is terminated

Fox News ^ | 12.02.2020 | Edmund DeMarche

[USA Conservative]

President Trump tweeted late Tuesday that he will veto the National Defense Authorization Act unless Congress repeals Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which critics say unfairly shields social media platforms from liability over items posted on their platforms.

These opponents have been vocal that tech behemoths like Twitter and Facebook should no longer be shielded as a neutral platform when they operate more like a publisher.

The criticism seemed to reach its tipping point during the Hunter Biden scandal in the weeks prior to the presidential election.

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The New York Post ran an explosive report that purported to show emails from Hunter Biden that linked his father to his Ukraine business dealings.

Republican Sens. Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham and Josh Hawley called on the heads of Twitter and Facebook at the time to testify.

“This is election interference and we're 19 days out from an election,” Cruz, R-Texas, said. “It has no precedent in the history of democracy. The Senate Judiciary Committee wants to know what the hell is going on.”

[USA Conservative]

Everyone should watch the documentary on Netflix called "The Social Dilemma". It's a real eye opener about social media and its effects on our society. It's mostly interviews with people who developed and programmed the social media software - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others. These are the people who started the whole thing, and most of them won't even allow their children to use social media until at least high school. They are very concerned with the unintended consequences of social media. And recently the social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook interfered with posting on their sites, thereby showing that they are not neutral in any sense. So, they are, in fact, publishing sites, not neutral internet sites protected by Section 230. Their effects on our society, and especially the recent election, is disastrous and they need to be held accountable for their actions.

[sauropod]

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[ronnie raygun]

Can this do damage to FR and other sites like it by despicable rats? two way street it seems.

[Guenevere]

DO IT Mr. President!
We are with you!

[servantboy777]

>>Everyone should watch the documentary on Netflix called “The Social Dilemma”.<<

Can't. I pulled the plug on Netflix because of the their affiliation with the Obamas. Further solidified my decision as indeed being the right one when Netflix released a pedophiles dream movie in “Cuties”.

Sick people over there.

[LoveMyFreedom]

Get it done!

[livius]

Mixed feelings about this. Theoretically, Section 230 good, and the problem is that the owners of the platforms are violating it by imposing editorial control and their own opinions...which thereby negates the purpose of Section 230.

I think it protects sites like FR, and the solution is simply to prevent the big platforms from violating it.

[UB355]

“Everyone should watch the documentary on Netflix called “The Social Dilemma”

Nope, I sign up short term from time to time to watch specific series then cancel. When I finish watching season 4 of The Crown bye, bye Netflix.

[Yo-Yo]

Eliminating Section 230 will increase, not decrease, the amount of censorship on social media platforms.

If Section 230 is maintained, but outlets like Facebook and Twitter are deemed to be publishers rather than content distributers, the protections can maintain for platforms that are fair such as Parler or Free Republic.

[lodi90]

Big Tech has unlimited cash and armies of corporate lawyers to deal with losing section 230. Start up competitors like Parler don’t and will be targeted with lawfare by the Democrats. No doubt. I don’t think this is a game changer.

[ArcadeQuarters]

As others have mentioned, this will hurt smaller sites. What we need is payment processing without constant threat of being cut off and then you will see real competitors to leftist big tech. That’s the bottleneck.

[conservative98]

People responding are being retarded. Get rid of section 230.

[usconservative]

I'm not so sure holding defense spending up for Section 230 is a wise idea. Just imagine: another 9-11 style attack happens sometime in 2021/2022 and it'll get blamed on President Trump for holding up Defense Spending.

I know, I know: they'll blame him anyway however they'll be able to point to this situation right here and turn some people away from President Trump. If he's at all serious about 2024, this would kill that chance.

[SmokingJoe]

I'm not so sure holding defense spending up for Section 230 is a wise idea. Just imagine: another 9-11 style attack happens sometime in 2021/2022 and it'll get blamed on President Trump for holding up Defense Spending.

Nonsense.

[usconservative]

You’ll need more than a one word response to prove your point. Convince me that I’m wrong.

[lodi90]

Eliminating Section 230 will increase, not decrease, the amount of censorship on social media platforms.

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If that happens it will be because Democrat activist groups target websites with lawsuits.

[SmokingJoe]

Answer me this:
How many 9/11s have we had?
And 2, do you think the entire American military comes to stop because the defense budget is delayed by a few weeks?
Not to mention, do you think its the military that stops terrorist attacks like 9/11?
9/11 was not caused by military lapses. It was caused by intelligence failures. You think the Air Force should have bombed the 9/11 plotters in their apartments do you?
Gimme a bloody break!

[Yo-Yo]

If that happens it will be because Democrat activist groups target websites with lawsuits.

Maybe for Free Republic, but it will give Twatter and Faceplant free reign to outright ban anybody they choose to ban, under the excuse that they're now liable anything said by that person.

[Old Man From WV]

I was thinking that this wouldn’t be much leverage on Democrats since they don’t support military funding anyway.

[SmokingJoe]

Twitter is already banning conservatives anyway. 230 means the are going to have to start banning far left lunatics as well for a change.