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    Trump signs executive order attacking Section 230 legal protections for Facebook and Twitter
    Reuters May 28, 2020 2:30 PM

    (Reuters) — President Donald Trump said he will introduce legislation that may scrap or weaken a law that has long protected internet companies, including Twitter and Facebook, an extraordinary attempt to intervene in the media that experts said was unlikely to survive legal scrutiny.

    Trump signed an executive order on Thursday afternoon after attacking Twitter for tagging his tweets about unsubstantiated claims of fraud in mail-in voting with a warning prompting readers to fact-check the posts.

    Trump said we may “remove or change” Section 230 of a law known as the Communications Decency Act through legislation so social media companies will not enjoy this legal immunity, which protects such platforms from liability for content posted by their users.

    The President also said U.S. Attorney General William Barr will pursue said legislation to regulate social media companies.

    On Wednesday, Reuters reported the White House’s plan to modify Section 230 based on a copy of a draft order.

    Facebook and Twitter did not immediately comment on the executive order.

    The President’s remarks and the draft order, as written, attempts to circumvent Congress and the courts in directing changes to long-established interpretations of Section 230. It represents the latest attempt by Trump to use the tools of the Presidency to force private companies to change policies that he believes are not favorable to him.

    “In terms of presidential efforts to limit critical commentary about themselves, I think one would have to go back to the Sedition Act of 1798 — which made it illegal to say false things about the president and certain other public officials — to find an attack supposedly rooted in law by a president on any entity which comments or prints comments about public issues and public people,” said First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams.

    Others like Jack Balkin, a Yale University constitutional law professor, said “The president is trying to frighten, coerce, scare, cajole social media companies to leave him alone and not do what Twitter has just done to him.”

    Still, Twitter’s shares were down 4.4% on Thursday. Facebook was down 1.7 percent and Google parent Alphabet Inc were up slightly.

    Trump, who uses Twitter heavily to promote his policies and insult his opponents, has long claimed without evidence that the service is biased in favor of Democrats. He and his supporters have leveled the same unsubstantiated charges against Facebook, which Trump’s presidential campaign uses heavily as an advertising vehicle.

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    Re: trump wants to make JQP libel for every instance of 'n*gger' on gs-us

    The pre-trump years were better than the trump years.

    trump makes "thought crimes" 'illegal' in 2019

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDZwzkahh7g

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    Re: trump wants to make JQP libel for every instance of 'n*gger' on gs-us

    What I like about Trump is everyone hates him. The media hates him, the dems do, most of you guys on this forum do too.

    It's popular for everyone these days to be Anti-Trump.

    I will vote for Trump in the fall for this very reason.
    life is good.

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    Re: trump wants to make JQP libel for every instance of 'n*gger' on gs-us

    I think your take is wrong.

    I took it that he wants to carve out for megacorps. Not saying this will not be the beginning of the end. JQP is not adding commentary to every post.

    I am surprised their is no disclaimer at the bottom of every page saying everything is for discussion and entertainment purposes only. JQP only has a few rules. There are only a handful of words we are not allowed to type.
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    Re: trump wants to make JQP libel for every instance of 'n*gger' on gs-us

    “Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. It is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
    H.L. Mencken

    "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
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    Re: trump wants to make JQP libel for every instance of 'n*gger' on gs-us

    Libel is not liable.

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    Re: trump wants to make JQP libel for every instance of 'n*gger' on gs-us

    Quote Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
    It's popular for everyone these days to be Anti-Trump.

    I will vote for Trump in the fall for this very reason.
    It is pretty hard anymore to find any logical reason to vote.

    If Hillary had been here for all this, we could hope voting Republican in the fall could change things.

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    Re: trump wants to make JQP libel for every instance of 'n*gger' on gs-us

    Quote Originally Posted by osoab View Post
    I think your take is wrong.

    I took it that he wants to carve out for megacorps. Not saying this will not be the beginning of the end. JQP is not adding commentary to every post.

    I am surprised their is no disclaimer at the bottom of every page saying everything is for discussion and entertainment purposes only. JQP only has a few rules. There are only a handful of words we are not allowed to type.
    Twitter is not adding comments on every trump tweet. JQP commented on some of our posts. This getting rid of Section 230 for some could be the beginning of the end of internet freedom of speech.

    You don't think the ADL/SPLC terrorists want to get rid of Section 230.

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    Re: trump wants to make JQP libel for every instance of 'n*gger' on gs-us

    Quote Originally Posted by osoab View Post

    Kevin Barrett supports trumps move too. However, these actions against section 230 can be used against free of speech for everybody.

    It is twitters platform to censor trump. And it is twitters platform to give guideline on what speech they want. Others should allow total freedom of speech that has been protected by the 1st amendment since the start of the internet.

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    Re: trump wants to make JQP libel for every instance of 'n*gger' on gs-us

    Quote Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
    What I like about Trump is everyone hates him. The media hates him, the dems do, most of you guys on this forum do too.

    It's popular for everyone these days to be Anti-Trump.

    I will vote for Trump in the fall for this very reason.
    Yep, when all the people I don't like hate Trump, I know he is the right man for the job.
    DON'T TAKE THE VACCINE!

    THE SHIT HAS HIT THE FAN!

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