Posted on 05/28/2020 12:19:53 PM PDT by kevcol
Sen. Ron Wyden called President Trump's executive order targeting social media platforms a "plainly illegal" attempt to push "unfiltered lies."
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"I have warned for years that this administration was threatening 230 in order to chill speech and bully companies like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter into giving him favorable treatment. Today Trump proved me right. I expect those companies and every American who participates in online speech to resist this illegal act by all possible means," Wyden said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
I guess the Senator has a case of premature indignation.
I read on the internet that Widen should have his larynx ripped out with vice-grips. Did anyone else see this?
Leaked Google emails show employees discussing how they can manipulate search results:
I hate to be the one to bring this up, but we’re closing in on 5PM in the East, and so far no reports that Trump has actually signed anything yet.
Somebody needs to fact check this fellow until he shuts up.
Sen. Ron Wyden: Illegal Trump Attempt To Push "Unfiltered Lies"
Unfiltered Lies Like This One?
“threatening 230 in order to chill speech and bully companies like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter into giving him favorable treatment.”
What a joke. We don’t want “favorable treatment”, we want NEUTRAL treatment, which is the only kind of treatment you are allowed to give if you want to keep your precious 230 protections.
If it was on the internet, it must be true, because they would fact check it, right?
From what little I’ve read of it the EO is dependent on the FCC and other federal agencies to remove the Section 230 protections, and if they do then the lawyers are already preparing the legal challenges so we’ll see how it all plays out.
...and yet THE DEMOCRATS want to re-instate the ‘Fairness Doctrine’.
Blast his phone email & fax.
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