What To Make Of Trump’s Executive Order On Social Media | Talking Points Memo

The President’s multi-day war with Twitter finally came to a peak.

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that would allow his administration to punish websites it doesn’t like for allegedly censoring speech that the government supports.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1311356
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On it’s face, Trump’s order appears unconstitutional but (and this may sound naive or even odd) I could see a return of the Fairness doctrine if court cases link cable outlets to broadcast.

Probably at least naive but I do remember the rule viz

The first rule of Dunning-Kruger Club is you don’t know you are in Dunning-Kruger Club.

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God damn shit smeared man baby.

(I’m being nice here.)

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Can someone please explain this to me a little better. I don’t understand it at all.

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Hard to pick a good guy on this one … I think I’ll stick with the Constitution and advocate that government stay the hell out of communications between companies and the public. If this requires repair, I’m certain it can wait until after we clean out the toilet stall.

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While this could certainly be laying the groundwork for cries of “rigged” in the fall, I still think this is donnie’s attempt to divert attention from his Covid disaster.

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If I read this correctly, the EO gives Trump the right to sue social media platforms that allows posts that criticize him to stand. In other words, he’s trying to give himself special powers for his personal benefit.

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That’s a lot of graves to divert attention from.

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what’s the biggest insult to trump? he’s a used car salesman who got chased out of manhattan. because it’s true.

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That would only be if he didn’t believe his own press.

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Much better would just be to open up the algorithms of these companies to researchers to get a clear picture of siloing and AI use. Kind of like trying to figure out what the fuss was all about in Westworld Season 3.

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And the whining continues.

Why do guys who show up pretending to be tough donned in their camo carrying toting AR-15s, support this winy president?

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He’s not good enough.

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Boy, think how much worse this would all be if Hillary had won! Trump was definitely the better option to bring on the revolution. Susan Sarandon must be happy as a clam with all the good stuff happening now.

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Who REALLY wants to be the arbiter of truth?? Fat Donnie, that’s who. He is a political cross dresser, sometimes the abuser, sometimes the abused. He’s a cancerous fraud.

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Or Twitter could, ya know, ban him and be done with these fact checkings…

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They should storm the White House to protect him from the Libs!

I’ve heard people talking about it!

What? Too much?

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Zuck goes on Fox to whine? Gee, who does that remind me of.

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That and a tantrum.

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