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Re:Trump signs executive order targeting protections for soc... by ineedasername on Thursday May 28, 2020 @04:42PM (#23342283)
Seems counter productive to the President's intent. If platforms can be held liable for user posts, that will give them a strong incentive to remove anything at all that might even come close to giving them legal liability. So sure, maybe changing the law (or asking the FCC to reinterpret its strictures) would "get back" at the companies President Trump thinks are doing something wrong to him, but the net results would be severe limitations on what he could say on all platforms.
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Re:Trump signs executive order targeting protections for soc... by akersten on Thursday May 28, 2020 @04:43PM (#23342301)
Then he'll claim that he's being censored even more, which is probably exactly what he wants to do to rile up his supporters.
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Re:Trump signs executive order targeting protections for soc... by serpix on Thursday May 28, 2020 @04:45PM (#23342334)
except his supporters won't know about it since he is censored.
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Re:Trump signs executive order targeting protections for soc... by billstar on Thursday May 28, 2020 @04:50PM (#23342394)
The president can't be easily muted in the same way that a non-famous person could. Good or bad, the press will parrot what he says, in any forum.
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Re:Trump signs executive order targeting protections for soc... by ineedasername on Thursday May 28, 2020 @06:17PM (#23343522)
The President can call a press conference at any moment that will get coverage from pretty much every national media outlet, especially any outlet likely to be frequented by his supporters. Presidents will never be without a method to communicate with their supporters.
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Re:Trump signs executive order targeting protections for soc... by hairofadog on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:18PM (#23342783)
The idea is that it would be impossible for Twitter to remove every single Tweet that's libelous, threatening, etc., and so the only way to avoid being sued is to not remove _anything_. That ends up being a policy that is favorable to people who want to spread disinformation.
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Re:Trump signs executive order targeting protections for soc... by ineedasername on Thursday May 28, 2020 @07:03PM (#23344083)
It would probably results in a mass exodus of discussion on the internet as every single platform from Twitter to niche forums on obscure topics suddenly were not allowed to perform any sort of moderation without incurring legal liability. Thus the decision to abandon the discussion venue or watch it descent into something resembling the toxic cesspools seen in places like 8chan.
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