Re:Trump's executive order targets political bias at Twitter...
by deathgrips on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:37AM
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Twitter already arbitrarily approves, edits, and removes content. It seems like he wants the FCC to treat them like a publisher.
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Re:Trump's executive order targets political bias at Twitter...
by quantummkv on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:49AM
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> Twitter already arbitrarily approves, edits, and removes content.
By doing this Twitter is behaving as a publisher. Then why should Twitter not be treated like one?
Re:Trump's executive order targets political bias at Twitter...
by ljm on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:48AM
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I sincerely doubt he'd be drafting this order if, say, Joe Biden's tweets were the ones getting fact-check labels added to them. I can see it being a step towards Trump/Republicans using such an order to suppress criticism though; let's say... a Democrat campaign ad that attacks Trump or calls him out.
Either way, the only intention behind this drafted order is entirely self-serving. It's a complete knee-jerk reaction.