It’s unclear what Section 230 executive order will do to social media companies

Re:It’s unclear what Section 230 executive order will do to ... by nostromo on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:12PM (#23342707)

> Nothing.... the President is not a king and can't order people/companies to de-exist and can't be above the congress....

You may want to read the article.

He's not saying Twitter "can't exist" (and why would he? It's his platform of choice.) -- it seems like they're going to say that if social media companies start editing content, they're no longer platforms and instead publishers, who can be sued for their content.

This could be very problematic for Facebook, Twitter, and Google, who would suddenly be open to a lot of lawsuits based on their users' content.

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Re:It’s unclear what Section 230 executive order will do to ... by lr on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:21PM (#23342817)

The easy thing to do is to have two policies: one for politicians, and one for everyone else. The policy for politicians will be one that holds their actions to a much higher standard than everyone else. The policy can say that metrics will be used to determine if the statements by the politician are false or misleading, and if a certain threshold is reached, they can/will(/should!) be banned from the site. They can provide a detailed analysis about how they came to the conclusion to ban the user.

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Re:It’s unclear what Section 230 executive order will do to ... by Ididntdothis on Thursday May 28, 2020 @06:19PM (#23343546)

Who is a politician and who isn’t?

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Re:It’s unclear what Section 230 executive order will do to ... by lr on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:09PM (#23351724)

Thanks for the point of clarification: Elected officials, which should be easy for any social media company to determine, especially since, at least on Twitter and Instagram, they have "verified" profiles.

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Re:It’s unclear what Section 230 executive order will do to ... by ueueshitashita on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:23PM (#23342842)

> they're no longer platforms and instead publishers, who can be sued for their content

They could and have been sued all along. Plenty of people file inane lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter and Google all the time for content that gets posted on their services. I wouldn't be quick to imply that these lawsuits would result in successful outcomes for the plaintiffs would it not have been for the existence of Section 230.

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