President Trump this afternoon ramped up his war with social media companies by signing an executive order that aims to curtail their legal liability protections – two days after Twitter slapped fact check labels to a pair of his tweets about fraud in mail-in voting for the first time, the NY Post reports.
“We’re here today to defend free speech from one of the greatest dangers,” Trump said before signing the executive order in the Oval Office where Attorney General Bill Barr was present. The president added that the tech companies “had unchecked power.”
The order directs federal agencies to look at whether they can place new regulations on the tech companies like Twitter, Facebook and Google, which owns YouTube. It also seeks to clarify regulations under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a 1996 landmark federal law that largely exempts online platforms from legal liability for material posted by their users, allowing them to be treated more like publishers. Read more at NY Post.
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It’s about time.
The president is also fighting for us.
These termites play and censure only views that they oppose.
Youtube deletes even doctors who hold opposing views.
Crush them , Mr. President. Destroy them altogether.
oh I see you are against free business? business are free to censure anybody they wont you don’t like it make your own business!
It will challenged in court and thrown out as a violation of the first amendment.
and what did they do so wrong? they left the tweet up but put a disclaimer. twitter is free to protect their brand image. they are a business after all? I see trump doesn’t care about letting business operate freely! so much for mister capitalism