Twitter labeled Trump tweets with a fact check for the first time..

[allisolm]

And Trump is preparing to file the executive order. "The draft executive order being prepared by the Trump administration seeks to curtail the power of large social media platforms including Twitter and Facebook by attempting to reinterpret a critical 1996 law that shields websites and tech companies from lawsuits.'' It "targets a law known as the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 of the legislation provides broad immunity to websites that curate and moderate their own platforms..."

Trump signs executive order targeting social media companies

President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting social media companies on Thursday, days after Twitter called two of his tweets "potentially misleading."

www.cnn.com

 

[UNCjigga]

Read the comments from the link, it's probably how Trump does his data collection regarding how he functions to gaslight his minions. Or maybe they gas light him, but it's replies you would expect, exactly. Let the conservative downtrodden rise up again and decree Trump president of the world again, at least one more time!

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: Government censorship of social media isn't the 'right reflex'

Fox News Channel anchor Dana Perino's full interview with Zuckerberg airs Thursday on "The Daily Briefing."

www.foxbusiness.com

Jeezus, I can’t tell the difference between FOX’s peanut gallery and radical Islamists bent out of shape whenever someone draws Muhammad! Oh right, there is no difference.

Watch out Zuck and Dorsey and Pichai—Vanilla ISIS are coming for you!

 

[amenx]

Tbh, I dont think Twitter would have done this with any other president or candidate. They have a rational fear of 4 more years of a retard at the helm.

 

[Vic]

Hopefully this doesn't spin out of control because it will play straight into Trump's hands. Trump's campaign will be on this...

"Social Media is stifiling conserative free speech" is what Trump will hone in on, and it will be a distraction from the amount dead from COVID-19. It will be a distraction from our bad economy, and the high number of unemployed. It will be a distraction from everything wrong with this presidency. That is dangerous IMO.

It's hard for me to believe that social media is stifling conservative free speech when conservatives, including Trump, are on social media speaking so freely. And only being 'stifled' when they are instigating violence and hate, which unfortunately has become increasingly common.
The distraction, however, is an intentional move on Trump's part. The real danger though is that he wants his supporters to believe that they should be able to instigate and spread violence and hate and defamatory lies, and that they are being 'stifled' when private social media companies don't want that kind of speech on their platforms, regardless of political affiliation.

 

[ewdotson]

Tbh, I dont think Twitter would have done this with any other president or candidate. They have a rational fear of 4 more years of a retard at the helm.

Are there other presidents or serious presidential candidates who incessantly write fact-free screeds on their platform?

 

[amenx]

Are there other presidents or serious presidential candidates who incessantly write fact-free screeds on their platform?

Well, politics has a lot of misleading BS. Just wasnt aware Twitter had done this before with any politico.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Well, politics has a lot of misleading BS. Just wasnt aware Twitter had done this before with any politico.

That's a broad brush, I don't think we've ever had a politician that is even close to the level of Trump on the batshit-liar-o-meter.

 

[ecogen]

Well, politics has a lot of misleading BS. Just wasnt aware Twitter had done this before with any politico.

I wish they would (if it was done properly) tbh, but it is a matter of balancing available resources and the scale of the bullshit along with the importance of the person that it's coming from. Trump's a fucking easy target.

 

[Jhhnn]

Tbh, I dont think Twitter would have done this with any other president or candidate. They have a rational fear of 4 more years of a retard at the helm.

Apparently no other candidate has lied as egregiously as Trump. Mail in voting encourages participation, thus diluting the power of the GOP senior voting cadre. Retirees are generally more conservative & have the time & inclination to vote in person that a lot of people don't have. The pandemic turns that upside down. Under the circumstances, seniors want absentee ballots. Trump is a fool for taking the stance he has over the issue.

 

[pauldun170]

Tbh, I dont think Twitter would have done this with any other president or candidate. They have a rational fear of 4 more years of a retard at the helm.

Twitter would never have HAD to do this with any other President or Candidate.
No one expected a a buffoon of such magnitude would have ever elected to a "grown up job" such as President.

 

[cytg111]

Looooool Master Vlad is so proud.
Are you done fucking up now? Any day now?

 

[UNCjigga]

Trump’s new executive order, if enforced through FCC, Justice and State AGs, will give the ACLU the freedom to sue Gab and 4chan and others right out of existence for their “anti-liberal” bias. Hey, isn’t the Fox News website comments section essentially a social media platform???

 

[sandorski]

I think there is some legitimate concern with this action. It seems very targeted and introduces a lot of potential for abuse against all sorts of persons for a whole variety of reasons.

Trumps threats of Executive Orders is certainly worse though. He should Sue and let the Courts decide, not just sign a piece of paper to decide an issue he is in the middle of.

 

[snoopy7548]

And Trump is preparing to file the executive order. "The draft executive order being prepared by the Trump administration seeks to curtail the power of large social media platforms including Twitter and Facebook by attempting to reinterpret a critical 1996 law that shields websites and tech companies from lawsuits.'' It "targets a law known as the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 of the legislation provides broad immunity to websites that curate and moderate their own platforms..."

Trump signs executive order targeting social media companies

President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting social media companies on Thursday, days after Twitter called two of his tweets "potentially misleading."

www.cnn.com

So in effect, wouldn't this give Twitter/social media platforms more of an incentive/right to post fact-checks, block speech, and ban users, since they would now be facing lawsuits from failing to moderate their platforms?

 

[Jhhnn]

This is supposedly the draft-

Draft Executive Order On Social Media | PDF | Federal Trade Commission | American Government

A very unconstitutional mess

www.scribd.com

 

[fskimospy]

I think there is some legitimate concern with this action. It seems very targeted and introduces a lot of potential for abuse against all sorts of persons for a whole variety of reasons.

Trumps threats of Executive Orders is certainly worse though. He should Sue and let the Courts decide, not just sign a piece of paper to decide an issue he is in the middle of.

His problem is the law is very well established here and he would lose. His goal is not to win, it’s to corruptly intimidate these companies into ‘voluntarily’ doing what he wants.

 

[Jhhnn]

The take away in all this is that Twitter didn't censor Trump at all. They just pointed out the fact that he's lying. He argues that those things are the same, when they're not.

 

[zinfamous]

I think there is some legitimate concern with this action. It seems very targeted and introduces a lot of potential for abuse against all sorts of persons for a whole variety of reasons.

Trumps threats of Executive Orders is certainly worse though. He should Sue and let the Courts decide, not just sign a piece of paper to decide an issue he is in the middle of.

also, remember when executive orders were bad things that only tyrants did?

yeah, me neither.

 

[zzyzxroad]

also, remember when executive orders were bad things that only tyrants did?

yeah, me neither.

Only vaguely but then again, i'm still reeling over the time Obama wore a tan suite.

 

[Jhhnn]

Only vaguely but then again, i'm still reeling over the time Obama wore a tan suite.

Well, there was the utter indecency of his wife wearing sleeveless dresses...

 

[VRAMdemon]

This is supposedly the draft-

Draft Executive Order On Social Media | PDF | Federal Trade Commission | American Government

A very unconstitutional mess

www.scribd.com

Hmmm...Do I understand this correctly...

The order is expected to call for the rollback of a law that legally protects social media companies from the content that's posted on their sites. So, in a case of truly epic irony, it would give Twitter 1000% more incentive to delete Trump's lies, slanders and threats so that they are not legally responsible for the potential fallout from Trump tweets.

Doesn't that give Twitter more reason to tag his lies and delete his slanders? Wouldn't the first thing they'd delete are all his tweets accusing Joe Scarborough of murder?

Throwing a tantrum is really not the most constructive first reaction to...pretty much anything. He wants to punish what he thinks is suppressing freedom of speech (it isn't) by actually suppressing freedom of speech.

It's not even June yet and we have 5 months until election.

Trump will literally be flinging his own poo at reporters by Labor Day. If Trump starts flinging actual feces from the podium, the press will simply normalize the behavior:

"Today, our panel will be discussing the latest shit that Trump flung from the podium yesterday. Ted?

Ted: Thanks Shana. Well today's feces was certainly browner in color there can be no doubt about that.

Shana: What do you think that means

Ted: Well obviously, this means a shift in thinking on monetary policy from the Trump team

Carol: I disagree Ted. The feces was browner certainly, but the absence of nuts or corn indicate that immigration policy may be about to be softened."

 

[UNCjigga]

Hmmm...Do I understand this correctly...

The order is expected to call for the rollback of a law that legally protects social media companies from the content that's posted on their sites. So, in a case of truly epic irony, it would give Twitter 1000% more incentive to delete Trump's lies, slanders and threats so that they are not legally responsible for the potential fallout from Trump tweets.

Doesn't that give Twitter more reason to tag his lies and delete his slanders? Wouldn't the first thing they'd delete are all his tweets accusing Joe Scarborough of murder?

Throwing a tantrum is really not the most constructive first reaction to...pretty much anything. He wants to punish what he thinks is suppressing freedom of speech (it isn't) by actually suppressing freedom of speech.

It's not even June yet and we have 5 months until election.

Trump will literally be flinging his own poo at reporters by Labor Day. If Trump starts flinging actual feces from the podium, the press will simply normalize the behavior:

"Today, our panel will be discussing the latest shit that Trump flung from the podium yesterday. Ted?

Ted: Thanks Shana. Well today's feces was certainly browner in color there can be no doubt about that.

Shana: What do you think that means

Ted: Well obviously, this means a shift in thinking on monetary policy from the Trump team

Carol: I disagree Ted. The feces was browner certainly, but the absence of nuts or corn indicate that immigration policy may be about to be softened."

The thing is, this EO is meaningless without the appropriate enforcement actions from the FCC, DoBarr and state AGs. So it’s a meaningless piece of paper that will certainly scare mainstream media and excite the base, and that’s precisely the intended effect.

You may see hints of cooperation from Barr (he declares “we’re looking into [insert specific action here]”) but Pai wouldn’t dare upset his Big Media/Tech overlords and red state AGs won’t waste their money going after Big Tech.

 

[BoomerD]

So...would thing give Twitter the necessary tools to ban Trump for violating the ToS?

 

[ch33zw1z]

So...would thing give Twitter the necessary tools to ban Trump for violating the ToS?

Twitter, just like Facebook, has spent most of their time not enforcing their own ToS. So when they even try to, people flip the fuck out.

 

[alien42]

Well, politics has a lot of misleading BS. Just wasnt aware Twitter had done this before with any politico.

Trump is literally the only person in the world they haven't done anything about until now. Twitter has removed posts of various world leaders in the past.