Barr followed up on that, delivering a slightly more lucid if not darker explanation, saying that tech companies were akin to publishers who started off as free forums, but now, having expanded, now flex their muscles to achieve political aims.
So this is the end of Fox news?
and he has to have his “Depends” changed every half hour
Also the “National Enquirer” and Fox are our only Nation’s news sources that tell the truth.
Well, on the plus side, President Biden can just use this precedent to order fox news shut down.
“The President’s multi-day war with Twitter finally came to a pique.”
Fixt.
I mean, come on!!! The asshole has to clear the way for the Russian interference in the election as it was in 2016! It’s going to be harder this time around unless he manages to either 1. Close down the US Post Office and/or 2. stifle mail-in ballots. Anything to rig the election in his favor. He got away with it once, and now he has more power to really make it happen…legally(?).
What’s that law about unintended consequences?
So now everyone hops up and down over this for a week. Meanwhile, back at the morgue…
237 days and counting.
It’s notable that the idea of policing oneself and checking facts before posting is not even under discussion.
What to make of Trumps Executive Order ?
As I understand it, if the social media folks are considered “publishers,” then they get held to the same standards as journalists and publishers everywhere, i.e., libel laws. If you knowingly publish something that is untrue, you can be sued for damages. This, then would force Facebook, Twitter, et al. to police what they are “publishing” on the Internet. Which, apparently, Zuckerberg doesn’t want to do.
What the executive order does is police private platform owners and punish them for whatever the government deems is unacceptable speech. Basically, punishing a private business for acts the executive branch (in this instance) or the government (generally) doesn’t like. Which smells totally unconstitutional. The government can regulate citizens and private concerns if it is in the public interest for it to do so. Even that is litigable, but this executive order is … another instance of ole white eyes melting down with the support of his Attorney General.
Surely, you’re joking.
Do I read today’s Twitter Executive Order correctly that it violates multiple past Trump EO’s about not imposing new regulations on business, including ONE HE WROTE TEN DAYS AGO!?! For examples (dates link to order)…
Jan 30, 2017
“it is important that for every one new regulation issued, at least two prior regulations be identified for elimination, and that the cost of planned regulations be prudently managed and controlled through a budgeting process.”
May 19, 2020
“Agencies should address this economic emergency by rescinding, modifying, waiving, or providing exemptions from regulations and other requirements that may inhibit economic recovery”
Easy to pick a bad guy
How many of you have been in twitter jail for much less than anything Trump tweets 10 times a day
I don’t care about him but I want it evenly enforced
Either we all go to jail or no one goes to jail
You forgot: drawn and quartered; keel-hauled; vivisected; eviscerated: dissected; exploded; imploded; vanished; abolished: digitally scraped; etc. etc. etc.
The GOP never considers them. hahahahahaha
Soooooo basically…
Nom nom nom…eat up, Trump KKKult!
Mark Z is full of caca. Facebook totally monitors content for truthiness. Ask the Lincoln Project and their Mourning in America video. But he’s willing to give BS content from the President a total pass? Doesn’t pass the smell test.
Sure, and I’ll be uncharacteristically brief: If Trump wants to do a thing, that thing is bad, and Trump wants to do this thing.