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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReports say White House has drafted an order putting the FCC in charge of monitoring social media
The White House is contemplating issuing an executive order that would widen its attack on the operations of social media companies.
The White House has prepared an executive order called Protecting Americans from Online Censorship that would give the Federal Communications Commission oversight of how Facebook, Twitter and other tech companies monitor and manage their social networks, according to a CNN report.
Under the order, which has not yet been announced and could be revised, the FCC would be tasked with developing new regulations that would determine when and how social media companies filter posts, videos or articles on their platforms.
The draft order also calls for the Federal Trade Commission to take those new policies into account when investigating or filing lawsuits against technology companies, according to the CNN report.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/09/reports-say-white-house-has-drafted-an-order-putting-the-fcc-in-charge-of-monitoring-social-media/
Scoopster
(423 posts)Companies can take whatever action their want to moderate their users on their own platform. Unlike this government, which is attempting to tear up the 1st Amendment. Classic projection.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)He has his own station too.
sinkingfeeling
(51,438 posts)operations to Mexico.
Fullduplexxx
(7,844 posts)They infiltrated radio and took it over so the left moves to social media now here comes the right to destroy it
Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)Dems getting practice at whack a mole.
TheRealNorth
(9,470 posts)For the Russian and RW bots.
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)what that executive order really means is turning FCC to Cambridge Analytica to help trump victory in 2020z
Takket
(21,528 posts)The Feds can regulate in ways like how the FCC regulates TV but that is it. You cant regulate content.
onenote
(42,584 posts)Dan
(3,537 posts)they could get rid of those nude pictures of his wife on the internet.
blogslut
(37,982 posts)Would that maybe blast open the door to defining the internet as a public utility?