Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media companies

Re:Trump signs executive order targeting protections for soc... by wwweston on Thursday May 28, 2020 @06:59PM (#23344032)

Additionally, the intervention Twitter seems to have chosen here wasn’t actually to silence the user (who happens to be the current President), but to mark/annotate with a fact check label, which is essentially responding to speech with more speech. That’s entirely compatible with even far-reaching 1A readings and robust philosophical perspectives on it.

And in fact, Twitter’s civil leadership policy has been allowing such users (including Trump) extra leeway.

The fact that Trump is mad about this shows that what he’s concerned about isn’t his own freedoms of speech are being impinged on, but that his freedom from accountability in discourse might be threatened.

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Re:Trump signs executive order targeting protections for soc... by Thriptic on Thursday May 28, 2020 @07:41PM (#23344470)

Exactly this and I'm surprised that I had to scroll this far down to find this comment.

Extract this scenario out into meat space. Imagine if a town was running a bulletin board where anyone could post town news and a citizen posted a flyer talking about town crime statistics that were wrong. A town employee noticed and posted an addendum identified as being from the town right next to the flyer saying "actually the real data is X". Should town employees not be allowed to do that?

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