'We Will Strongly Regulate, Or Close Them Down.' Trump Threatens To Shutter Social Media Platforms A

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Source: TIME

(Washington D.C.) -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened social media companies with new regulations or even shuttering a day after Twitter added fact checks to two of his tweets. The president can't unilaterally regulate or close the companies, which would require action by Congress or the Federal Communications Commission. But that didn't stop Trump from angrily issuing a strong warning.

Claiming tech giants "silence conservative voices," Trump tweeted, "We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen." Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen.

We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can't let a more sophisticated version of that....-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2020 And he repeated his unsubstantiated claim -- which sparked his latest showdown with Silicon Valley -- that expanding mail-in voting "would be a free for all on cheating, forgery and the theft of Ballots."

Trump and his campaign angrily lashed out Tuesday after Twitter added a warning phrase to two Trump tweets that called mail-in ballots "fraudulent" and predicted that "mail boxes will be robbed," among other things. Under the tweets, there is now a link reading "Get the facts about mail-in ballots" that guides users to a Twitter "moments" page with fact checks and news stories about Trump's unsubstantiated claims...


Read more: https://time.com/5843107/trump-threatens-social-media-twitter-fact-check/

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[Mz Pip]

1. Read the First Amendment, Donnie.

You can’t censor just because you disagree with the content.

[redwitch]

2. Fucking fascist!

Can he actually do this?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. No. Not even this Supreme Court would allow it.

All of the conservative justices have consistently defended the First Amendment.

Kavanaugh: https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1603/brett-kavanaugh
Alito: https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1282/samuel-alito-jr
Roberts: https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1354/john-roberts-jr
Gorsuch: https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1496/neil-gorsuch
Thomas: https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1364/clarence-thomas

[redwitch]

22. Nice to know.

Furious about everything today. I’m going to garden and try to think peaceful thoughts.

[elleng]

23. THANKS, Ocelot!

[Scairp]

41. No

He’s posturing.

[mr_lebowski]

3. You ain't gonna 'strongly regulate' jack-shit you fascist f*** (nt)

[trueblue2007]

19. you said it !!!!!!! You ain't gonna 'strongly regulate' jack-shit you fascist asshole!!

[Auggie]

4. He wants to look like a martyr ... its campaign fodder/shit for the base

[Thomas Hurt]

5. Strongly regulate equals only allow media the GOPig approves.

[Ohiogal]

6. Maybe

If your “Conservative Voices” stopped spreading lies and misinformation...?

Oh, wait ...

[maxsolomon]

7. Decompensating.

he really needs to come down off the Sudafed.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. "We" who?

[lettucebe]

9. Sorry, Sir. Your threats are empty. You are finished. Bye Felicia

[Journeyman]

10. Yeah, like Trump is going to shutter Twitter and stifle his own voice . . .

blustering baboon flinging poo. Safe to ignore this idiocy.

[niyad]

15. He may not be able to shut social media down, but we chant ignore any of his idiocy, because

we know that he basically is giving marching orders to the orange kook-ade drinkers to foam and froth and generally cause trouble.

We ignore him at our peril.

[SWBTATTReg]

12. Sure. More hot air and nonsense coming from the vast empty spaces of rump's head obviously.

I'm wondering when in the hell will he stroke out, since he literally gets mad if someone sneezes the wrong way around him?

I'm surprised that Twitter did this (warnings on two of idiot's tweets) ... maybe public peer pressure is finally getting to Twitter or they're getting their behinds sued off in court.

I'm impressed that they did something finally.

[edbermac]

13. Guess what Donnie? You ain't gonna do JACK SHIT!

To update that old joke: what’s the difference between Donald Trump and the Hindenburg?

One’s a flaming Nazi gasbag, the other one is a zeppelin.

[modrepub]

14. Posturing

He already gets away with breaking ANY rule he chooses. This isn't any different. He and his followers have a really tough time differentiating truth from fiction and frankly no one seems to care anymore what reality really is so why not try and bully to get one more their "realities" inserted into the conversation. As other's have pointed out, these folks seem stuck on being "the victim" (and they call us snowflakes).

[Warpy]

16. Oh, please, he's addicted to Twitter

especially now that he can't go around to conservative areas to whip up hate. I love how this has wounded him, a very subtle fact check link that didn't outright contradict him straight to his ugly face.

This is how you deal with him, keep lacerating that thin skin and eventually he'll pop.

I hope Dorsey is watching closely and I hope he realizes this is all bluster and Big Dummy can't do a single damned thing about it.

[dalton99a]

17. He is full of shit. Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner investor:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/russia-funded-facebook-twitter-investments-kushner-investor
Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner investor
Institutions with close links to Kremlin financed stakes through investor in Trump son-in-law’s venture, leaked files reveal
by Jon Swaine and Luke Harding
Sun 5 Nov 2017 13.00 EST

[underpants]

18. So THIS he gives a rip about? Pandemic? Pffft. Getting two while fact checks

and he goes nuts?

[Initech]

20. Funny how conservatives don't want regulations until it affects them directly.

[Squinch]

21. Ignorant asshole being ignorant. And asshole-ish.

[Collimator]

24. Big, Dumb, Mistake.

Trying to mess with public speech on social media platforms. And Conservatives claim to hate "Big Government" and the way it tries to run our lives?!

Of course, where Trumpelthinskin is concerned, he is allowed to dish it out, but nobody better try to serve it to him.

Every single day he reveals himself to be less and less worthy to be a leader of people.

[MissMillie]

25. Mr. 45... you are perfectly free to use a different social media platform

And if Twitter decides that it's going to fact-check you, that's entirely their prerogative.


Hey--you could start your own. I'm sure it'd be bankrupt within a few years.

[marble falls]

26. OOOOOOOOOOOoooooooowwww, all he can do is offer a strong warning!!!!

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. Meanwhile, Trump got a cartoon T-shirt removed from RedBubble because there were MAGA hats

on some characters:

CBLDF Leads Coalition to Protect the First Amendment Rights of Editorial Cartoonist



CBLDF is leading a coalition protesting the removal of a cartoon satirizing President Donald Trump by Pulitzer Prize–winning editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson from the online marketplace Redbubble. The removal arises from a meritless complaint by the Trump re-election campaign. The cartoon constitutes speech protected by the First Amendment, and its removal misuses mechanisms designed to protect intellectual property to suppress protected speech.

On May 18, the Daily Kos reported that Redbubble removed products featuring Anderson’s cartoon “The Trump Cult,” based on allegations of trademark infringement from Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. The Trump Campaign has misused Redbubble’s reporting mechanism to suppress political expression in the form of parody, critique, and satire protected by the First Amendment.

CBLDF and our coalition partners Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, American Library Association, Office For Intellectual Freedom, Authors Guild, Freedom to Read Foundation, National Coalition Against Censorship, and PEN America call upon Redbubble to reinstate Mr. Anderson’s product listings to affirm its commitment to its sellers’ — and its own — First Amendment rights.

http://cbldf.org/2020/05/cbldf-leads-coalition-to-protect-the-first-amendment-rights-of-editorial-cartoonist/

Trump complains that having an accurate "this is not true" note added to his bullshit is him being "silenced". But when he actually silences an opponent, oh, no, that's fine.

[onetexan]

28. Damn. Idiot is now clearly a tinpot dictator now

one without a well-functioning brain that is.

[Bayard]

29. But....... How will he run the country?

[Pathwalker]

30. Go ahead Donnie, shut down Twitter! Your thumbs will fall off if you do it,

but we would all be better off if you did! I dare you!

[louis-t]

31. What do you mean "regulate", asshole?

Like, you're going to sign an EO that says they have to be nice to you?

[muriel_volestrangler]

33. Yeah, that's pretty much what he thinks today he's going to do

Trump to sign executive order on social-media companies on Thursday

President Donald Trump is poised to sign an executive order on social-media companies Thursday, escalating his war on Twitter Inc., although it remains unclear what it will entail.

A White House spokesperson confirmed the order late Wednesday, a day after Twitter issued its first fact-checking warning label to some of his tweets.

Twitter declined comment. Late Tuesday, a company spokesperson said it issued fact checks because Trump’s tweets “contain potentially misleading information about voting processes and have been labeled to provide additional context around mail-in ballots. This decision is in line with the approach we shared earlier this month.”

In a series of tweets Wednesday, Trump threatened to “regulate” or even “close” social-media platforms. Legal experts scoffed at the president’s ability to moderate social-media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook Inc. and Snap Inc.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-to-sign-executive-order-on-social-media-companies-on-thursday-2020-05-27?mod=economy-politics

Someone will explain to him, when he's been fed and burped, that he can't take it out on the bad Dorsey man after all, and they will compose a "presidential" tweet for him saying he has graciously decided to give the very nasty and unfair companies one last chance.

[Captain Zero]

43. I thought he was the Deregulation King

at least he has been for health, the environment, banking, the stock market, food safety, EPA rollbacks, Wall Street, AH but THIS he needs to regulate?

[BlueIdaho]

32. Dick Tater

What an asshole.

[muriel_volestrangler]

34. I thought it was shaped like a toadstool, not a potato (nt)

[EarthFirst]

35. He's taken to Twitter half a dozen times since this tirade...

Four within the past hour...

[regnaD kciN]

36. The FCC can shut them down???

The president can't unilaterally regulate or close the companies, which would require action by Congress or the Federal Communications Commission.

If the FCC can do that, you can bet Trump will have his loyalists who hold a majority of FCC seats do so.

[dware]

40. If the FCC tried that,

the courts would strike it down as unconstitutional before the ink even dried.
The asshole Mango Menace is just trying to distract from all his failures being called out.

[Srkdqltr]

37. It's time

The CEO's of Amazon and Twitter should pool their considerable wealth and put it to use to get rid of him. One way or another. Back Biden. Hire a guy who paints houses (no) Back Biden.

[Maeve]

38. No, you fucking won't, you big blowhard

Because you'd lose what little mind you have left without your tweets, you twit

[bubbazero]

39. WELL THEN GO AHEAD DONNIE, WE'RE WAITING

I DARE you to do it. Just try you nimrod, try it--see what happens--try it chickenshit--JUST FUCKING TRY IT. Come on Donnie, show us your tiny hands can issue an order to shut down social media platforms you don't like. Just TRY IT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS YOU COWARDLY CHICKENSHIT WANNABE MAN!------------Tis better to twiddle your thumbs quietly and have people think your a twit, then to open the app on your phone and remove all doubt

[olddad65]

42. The White House has become the Kremlin of the West.